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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi, All<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I try to visualize the numpy.array matrix ‘m’ as a raster layer from Qgis.  Because I have to show the matrix dynamically, I  do not want to save the raster to *.tif file.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Is there any way to do this.   I can create raster dataset using gdal library, but do not know how to create a raster layer to show on Qgis window.  The code is as follows.  Thank you so much!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:navy">def
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black">show_matrix_as_raster(</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:#94558D">self</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black">, m, lng_min, lat_min,
 pixelWidth, pixelHeight):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black">    cols = m.shape[</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:blue">1</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black">]<br>
    rows = m.shape[</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:blue">0</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black">]<br>
<br>
    driver = gdal.GetDriverByName(</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:green">'MEM'</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black">)<br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:green">    </span>
</b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black">outRaster = driver.Create('', cols, rows,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:blue">1</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black">, gdal.GDT_Byte)   # create dataset in memory<br>
    outRaster.SetGeoTransform((lng_min, pixelWidth, </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:blue">0</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black">, lat_min,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:blue">0</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black">, pixelHeight))<br>
   outband = outRaster.GetRasterBand(</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:blue">1</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black">)<br>
    outband.WriteArray(m)<br>
    outRasterSRS = osr.SpatialReference()<br>
    outRasterSRS.ImportFromEPSG(</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:blue">4326</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black">)<br>
    outRaster.SetProjection(outRasterSRS.ExportToWkt())<br>
    outband.FlushCache()<br>
<br>
   </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:#94558D">layer </span>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black">= QgsRasterLayer( file_name_???, layer_name)    # how to create QgsRsterLayer from
<span lang="ZH-CN">‘</span>outRaster<span lang="ZH-CN">’</span>, rather than file?<br>
   QgsMapLayerRegistry.instance().addMapLayer( </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:#94558D">layer</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black"> )<br>
<br>
    </span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:gray">###### render<br>
    ##<br>
    </span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black">myGrayRenderer = QgsSingleBandGrayRenderer(layer.dataProvider(),
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:blue">1</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black">)<br>
    layer.setRenderer(myGrayRenderer)<br>
    renderer = layer.renderer()<br>
    uses_band = renderer.usesBands()<br>
<br>
    myType = renderer.dataType(uses_band[</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:blue">0</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black">])<br>
    myEnhancement = QgsContrastEnhancement(myType)<br>
    contrast_enhancement = QgsContrastEnhancement.StretchToMinimumMaximum<br>
    myEnhancement.setContrastEnhancementAlgorithm(contrast_enhancement, </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:navy">True</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black">)<br>
<br>
    myEnhancement.setMinimumValue(m.min())<br>
    myEnhancement.setMaximumValue(m.max())<br>
<br>
    layer.renderer().setContrastEnhancement(myEnhancement)<br>
    layer.renderer().setOpacity(</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:blue">0.5</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black">)<br>
    layer.triggerRepaint()<br>
<br>
    </span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:navy">if </span>
</b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black">layer.isValid()
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:navy">is </span>
</b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:navy">False</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black">:<br>
        </span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:navy">print
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:green">"Unable to show the raster layer."</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Liye,</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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