diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 367deda04..c989090c7 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+- **Breaking**: `Dataset::raster_count` now returns an `usize` and `Dataset::rasterband` now takes `usize` instead of `isize`
+
+  - <https://github.com/georust/gdal/pull/433>
+
 ## 0.16
 
 - **Breaking**: `Dataset::close` now consumes `self`
diff --git a/src/dataset.rs b/src/dataset.rs
index 1a1139864..0424bfb75 100644
--- a/src/dataset.rs
+++ b/src/dataset.rs
@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ impl Dataset {
     ///
     /// Applies to raster datasets, and fetches the
     /// rasterband at the given _1-based_ index.
-    pub fn rasterband(&self, band_index: isize) -> Result<RasterBand> {
+    pub fn rasterband(&self, band_index: usize) -> Result<RasterBand> {
         unsafe {
             let c_band = gdal_sys::GDALGetRasterBand(self.c_dataset, band_index as c_int);
             if c_band.is_null() {
@@ -667,8 +667,8 @@ impl Dataset {
     }
 
     /// Fetch the number of raster bands on this dataset.
-    pub fn raster_count(&self) -> isize {
-        (unsafe { gdal_sys::GDALGetRasterCount(self.c_dataset) }) as isize
+    pub fn raster_count(&self) -> usize {
+        (unsafe { gdal_sys::GDALGetRasterCount(self.c_dataset) }) as usize
     }
 
     /// Returns the raster dimensions: (width, height).
diff --git a/src/raster/rasterize.rs b/src/raster/rasterize.rs
index baf3d2b8d..bcd9ba3f2 100644
--- a/src/raster/rasterize.rs
+++ b/src/raster/rasterize.rs
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ mod tests {
 /// may be of any GDAL supported datatype.
 pub fn rasterize(
     dataset: &mut Dataset,
-    bands: &[isize],
+    bands: &[usize],
     geometries: &[Geometry],
     burn_values: &[f64],
     options: Option<RasterizeOptions>,
@@ -178,8 +178,9 @@ pub fn rasterize(
             geometries.len()
         )));
     }
+    let raster_count = dataset.raster_count();
     for band in bands {
-        let is_good = *band > 0 && *band <= dataset.raster_count();
+        let is_good = *band > 0 && *band <= raster_count;
         if !is_good {
             return Err(GdalError::BadArgument(format!(
                 "Band index {} is out of bounds",