Enforce crs_matrix type when using tocsr()

climada/entity/measures/base.py

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 import numpy as np
 import pandas as pd
 from geopandas import GeoDataFrame
+from scipy.sparse import csr_matrix
 
 import climada.util.checker as u_check
 from climada.entity.exposures.base import INDICATOR_CENTR, INDICATOR_IMPF, Exposures

climada/hazard/xarray.py

@@ -58,7 +58,9 @@ def _to_csr_matrix(array: xr.DataArray) -> sparse.csr_matrix:
         output_dtypes=[array.dtype],
     )
     sparse_coo = array.compute().data  # Load into memory
-    return sparse_coo.tocsr()  # Convert sparse.COO to scipy.sparse.csr_array
+    return sparse.csr_matrix(
+        sparse_coo.tocsr()
+    )  # Convert sparse.COO to scipy.sparse.csr_array
 
 
 # Define accessors for xarray DataArrays