rio-merge-rgba 0.1

A rio merge alternative optimized for large RGBA scenetifs

merge_rgba is a CLI with nearly identical arguments to rio merge. They accomplish the same task, merging many rasters into one. The differences are in the implementation:

merge_rgba 1. only accepts 4-band RGBA rasters 2. writes the destination data to disk rather than an in-memory array 3. reads/writes in windows corresponding to the destination block layout 4. once a window is filled with data values, the rest of the source files are skipped for that window

This is both faster and more memory efficient but limited to RGBA rasters.