Calculating Buffer Area in GeoDataFrame

This function calculates the area of the buffer around each geometry in a GeoDataFrame and stores the results in a new column.

Technology Stack : GeoPandas, Shapely

Code Type : Geographic data processing

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def calculate_buffer_area(geodataframe, buffer_distance):
    """
    This function calculates the area of the buffer around geometries in a GeoDataFrame.
    """
    from geopandas import GeoDataFrame
    from shapely.geometry import Polygon
    
    # Calculate the buffer area for each geometry in the GeoDataFrame
    geodataframe['buffer_area'] = geodataframe.geometry.buffer(buffer_distance).area
    
    return geodataframe