detect-squares | Search imagery for square-shaped features

detect-squares is a Jupyter Notebook library. detect-squares has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Makes use of the brilliant scikit-image library to detect the centers of basic square-like shapes in imagery and output these as points in a shapefile. An application is shown below using a Landsat-8 panchromatic band as a test image. Although the resolution of the imagery does limit detection accuracy, a good number of squares were detected correctly providing a basic human population map. Landsat-8 imagery is freely available from USGS Earthexplorer.