mask support is added

[MarjanAsgari]

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[MarjanAsgari]

@mpelchat04 Support for checking internal masks, reading masks, normalizing data, and setting nodata values to zero has been implemented in this branch.

However, the key requirement is that GDAL must be available in the runtime environment where this project is executed. Therefore, GDAL needs to be installed either in the Docker image of the project that calls the geo_inference or as a dependency of the geo_inference package itself.

If GDAL is not available, the code will not be able to detect internal masks and will emit a runtime warning instead.

[MarjanAsgari]

@mpelchat04 Hi Mathieu, based on J-F’s suggestion, I removed the GDAL dependency and used Rasterio instead to check whether each dataset has mask flags. I tested this on several images, and the results match GDAL’s behavior. As a result, GDAL installation is no longer required, and the change is ready for review.