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Getting started

Getting Access to GBDX

All operations on GBDX require credentials. You can sign up for a GBDX account at https://gbdx.geobigdata.io. Your GBDX credentials are found under your account profile.

GBDXtools expects a config file to exist at ~/.gbdx-config with your credentials. Instead of a file your credentials can also be stored as the environmental variables GBDX_USERNAME and GBDX_PASSWORD. For more information on the credential file and other ways to manage authorization, see https://github.com/tdg-platform/gbdx-auth#ini-file.

GBDXtools automatically handles authentication and authorization. It is not required to manually log in or start a session.

For questions or troubleshooting email GBDX-Support@digitalglobe.com.

Using Gbdxtools

Local Python Environment

As an access library to GBDX APIs, GBDXtools can be run locally. See Installation below.

Jupyter Notebooks

GBDXtools has additional features for visualization and mapping in IPython and Jupyter Notebooks. This is the recommended development environment for analysis.

Installation

pip install gbdxtools

Upgrading

In the period between 0.16.7 and 0.17.0 releases there have been significant changes to GBDXtools, Proj, GDAL, and Dask. We highly recommend installing GBDXtools 0.17.1 into a new, clean environment. To upgrade an existing environment the best practice is to uninstall the core dependencies first. We suggest unistalling the following: dask, dask-core, pyproj, proj4, rio-hist, rasterio, and gdal.

Troubleshooting

These are various tips to follow if your installation fails.

Dependencies

Windows Users

Wheels for GBDXtools dependencies are collected here: https://github.com/DigitalGlobe/gbdxtools-windows-dependencies

pip

Make sure you have the latest pip version:

pip install pip --upgrade

Ubuntu users

If you run into trouble with the installation of cryptography, make sure that the following dependencies are installed:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

Mac OSX Users

If you run into trouble with the installation of cryptography and see a message that <ffi.h> could not be found, you can run:

xcode-select --install

Then run "pip install gbdxtools" again. See stackoverflow for discussion on what is going wrong and why this fixes it (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27328049/missing-usr-include-after-yosemite-and-xcode-install)

If you are running in a virtualenv and run into issues you may need upgrade pip in the virtualenv:

cd <your_project_folder>
. venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install --upgrade gbdxtools
# you might also need to remove token from your .gbdx-config file
nano -w ~.gbdx-config
# then, remove the [gbdx_token] section and json= part