Not using band as dimension while reading raster using xarray

Question

I am reading in a single band raster using xarray. Is there a way to not have band be a dimension and just have the x and y coordinates as dimensions?

Answer 1

You mean directly when reading the file?

Because you can always do this after reading the file:

ds = ds.sel(band = 1)

It should return a dataset with only x and y as coords.