Help with a Simple Code to Read a Metadata from a Raster File

Question

Please help me with a python code to read metadata from a Raster file. Thanks

Answer 1

Two options:

1)Use GDAL Python bindings, the code is here.

2)Run GDALINFO from python and capture the stdout, to get a string with the metadata:

import os
metadata = os.popen('gdalinfo ../rasterfile.tiff').read()
print metadata

Answer 2

You could use gdalinfo: http://www.gdal.org/gdalinfo.html