importing 'ordinary' tif files with a 'basic' open_rasterio

[patquem]

Hello,

first of all, congratulations for your library I discovered a couple of weeks.

Concerning .tif files loading in xarray, I have used open_rasterio that requires rasterio and GDAL libraries.
In my case, tif files are nothing to see with Geospatial Data. (They are related to FIB-SEM images)

To avoid to load unsuitable libraries (like GDAL) for "basic" tif files loading, It would be nice to have a simpler open_rasterio() function.
Could you develop such a function?

Thanks.

[patquem]

Finally, I have used the following code using scikit-image to not be dependant of rasterio and GDAL libraries install

fnames = glob.glob(....)
xarr_list = []
for fname in fnames:
    arr = skimage.io.imread(fname)
    y = 0.5 + np.arange(arr.shape[0])
    x = 0.5 + np.arange(arr.shape[1])
    xarr_list.append(xr.DataArray(arr, coords=[("y", y), ("x", x)]))
stack3d = xr.concat(xarr_list, "z")
stack3d.coords["z"] = ....

Patrick