GDAL is an open source translator library & utilities for raster geospatial data formats. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful commandline utilities for data translation and processing.

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How to test if two GDAL datasets are in the same projection?

I'm attemping to write a funciton to test if a list of datasets are in the same projection. Naively, I thought I could test the text of WKTs, but that does not work in the following case: ...
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ESRI State Plane Coordinates as EPSG

I am working with some State Plane projections from Colorado. I have looked them up on spatialreference.org and they are the following: ESRI:102254: NAD 1983 HARN StatePlane Colorado Central FIPS ...
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How to flip X and Y coordinates of a grid by GDAL

I have a grid, which has flipped X and Y coordinates (X is represented by Y values and Y is represented by X values). This results in grid being positioned in completely wrong place. How can I flip ...
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GeoTIFF: How to remove Internal Overview without recompression

"gdaladdo -clean" does not remove the internal overview from the file see http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/4940 How do I remove GeoTIFF overview(s) without having to re-compress the main image.
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How do I link an existing install of GDAL to FileGDB in Linux?

The distribution I use (CentOS) only has GDAL 1.8 available through elgis. I've downloaded the FileGDB API from ESRI and I'd like to be able to link it after an install. How can I do this?
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gdal_grid failing to set nodata

Using gdal_grid for spatial interpolation I have run across a problem: the nodata argument is ignored. The only solution I have found for this is to then use gdal_translate but it is rather cumbersome ...
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How to use -lco options in gdal_contour?

I'm trying to create contours from geotiff raster with gdal_contour. My output format is Postgresql and I would like to ovewrite the existing table. When I do: gdal_contour -a 1 -f PostgreSQL -i 50 ...
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How I can incorporate results of histogram stretching into georeferenced image?

I have one channel 8 bit raster and when I open it in QGIS with histogram stretching "on the fly" it looks fine. How I can recalculate original raster accordingly changed histogram?
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Add band to existing GeoTiff using GDAL

This seems like it should be straightforward but I can't for the life of me figure it out. Given an existing GeoTiff containing a single band, how can you add another band to that GeoTiff? Is the ...
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A way to log the output from the Msys terminal in OSGEO4W?

Is there a way to log all the text output from commands in the Msys terminal to a text file when using OSGEO4W in Windows? I'm using GDAL commands and specifically wish to record any error messages ...
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How to use GDAL to burn a selected value from one raster into another?

I think this should be a relatively simple process, but I'm not quite sure how to approach it. I have a shapefile containing 1000's of polygons. I also have 19 rasters. All of the polygons fall ...
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Can't export a polygon shapefile to MySQL using ogr2ogr?

I am having problems with ogr2ogr and keep getting different versions of the error: ERROR 1: MySQL error message: The used table type doesn't support SPATIAL indexes. Description: ALTER TABLE ...
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OSGB36 referenced PNG to Google Earth

I am creating a PNG that is referenced to the OSGB36 datum (1 pixel per 50m easting/northing that is colored according to the result of some calculation code) I want to display this on Google Earth ...
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Leaflet with EPSG4326 Tile Layer (using maptiler.org)

I have successfully been using Klokan Petr Pridal's MapTiler (http://maptiler.org ) to take GeoTiff files and create TMS tile pyramids for Leaflet (option #1 which projects to EPSG3857, also called ...
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Converting different zoom-level GeoTiff to tms

I have several GeoTiff images I want to convert to a TMS structure of .png files. The GeoTiff images are different scale maps of an area (1:10000, 1:5000, 1:2500) with increasing detail level. How ...
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How use thin plate spline transformer to wrap image in c#

I'm new at programing with GDAL C#. I need to geotransform raster image (using GCP's) and bring it to the Merkator projection. With FWTools I can do this by using gdalwarp -r cubic -tps after ...
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How to interpret the OSGeo4w software version under Advanced Install option?

When choosing to install QGIS Desktop using the OSGeo4w advanced install option, I noticed that there are what looks like ambiguous software versions to choose. For example, currently QGIS Desktop ...
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How to read/write ENVI metadata using GDAL?

I am trying to use GDAL to read and write images in ENVI format (for example a .bsq file with an associated .hdr file). The GDAL Formats Info page states "Starting with GDAL 1.10, all ENVI header ...
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Should a GDAL Plugin be the same version as GDAL aready built into QGIS

Should a GDAL Plugin be the same version as the GDAL that's aready built into the QGIS version installed? Or,can another different version of GDAL be built and it installed as a Plugin for QGIS, ...
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How do I solve a “No PROJ.4 translation” error with gdal?

I've installed gdal using the brew utility on OS X so the proj and geos dependencies were also installed. I'm now trying to warp a GeoTIFF so that I can import it into Google Earth. I am getting a ...
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Batch processing DEM rasters in QGIS/GDAL

I am attempting to add relief shading to map using .asc raster files, following this tutorial. It works well, but I have only tried it on single tile of raster data which is 20x20km. I want to ...
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Build Raster Attribute Table with GDAL Utilities

Is there a way to build a raster attribute table using one of the GDAL utilities? I know you can view it using gdalinfo and I have successfully created one using Python, but it would be so much ...
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SHAPE FILE to TIGER with OGR

How do I convert SHAPE FILE to TIGER using GDAL (OGR). I try but throw following error:(layer number)is not a known TIGER/Line layer.
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Polygonize vegetation area from Landsat7 RGB using QGis / Bilko?

I'm trying to extract the areas with vegetation as a polygon-shape from a landsat7-image, 30m resolution, RGB, using QGis 1.8 or Bilko or (hopefully in the near future) ArcGIS. The area is in Northern ...
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Simplify polygon in OGR

We use ArcObjects pretty heavily and simplify polygons using something similar to the ITopologicalOperation::Simplify(void). No tolerance is passed in as the parameter (it uses the XY tolerance of ...
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calculating terrain elevation line

I found too many hits on the web to even see the right direction to go. I have to provide a small proxy server serving requests for a line of terrain elevation data between two coordinates. It is a ...
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How to add color interpretation for raster bands using GDAL?

I have 3 separate 1-band GeoTIFF files. The color interpretation for band is gray. I want a 3-band RGB file. I've used gdal_merge.py gdal_merge.py -separate file1.tif file2.tif file3.tif -o ...
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How to re-project the EASE (Equal Area Scalable Earth) grid with a ~25 km cylindrical projection to WGS84 0.25 degree?

I have nc files ,here is one file https://echange-fichiers.inra.fr/get?k=LUfqiyO1Dl7az5bihnS. from the metadata ,the projection is cylindrical and the resolution is 25 km: ...
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Slow tiles generation for leaflet js

I am currently trying to use leaflet to display images (jpeg or png) instead of maps, I have followed the instructions on this blog post to create the tiles using gdal2tiles.py here is the code we ...
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Regional statistics from a dataset (point inside a polygon aka region)

I am relatively new to GIS and I am trying to do some geographical analysis on same data I've collected. The dataset I have consists essentially in a file with the following format: ...
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How do I get the pixel value of a GDAL raster under an OGR point without NumPy?

I am working on a computational model of the abundance of wild pollinators across a landscape. The model itself is complete, and I am now struggling with a post-processing step. I have my GDAL ...
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USGS GeoTiff extent via GDAL

I have 2006 land cover GeoTiff from the USGS site (for a county in VA, USA). The projection is Albers Conical Equal Area Units. The download came with an HTML metadata file that tells me the geo ...
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Create subsetted multiband image from multiple files using gdal or python?

Given a time series of an area (single band), how you subset them and combine the subsets into a single multiband file (eg. vrt) using gdal or gdals' bindings for python?
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A comprehensive, user-friendly GDAL manual?

I'm becoming a real fan of using GDAL tools in a bash terminal. However, I quite often get stuck trying to solve particular problems, or getting syntaxes right. Apart from the details provided in the ...
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What means the gdal_translate message: “Too many command options”? [closed]

I have a little question, regarding the gdal_translate-utility: I want to extract raster-files from database-stored gridfiles using the gdal_translate: gdal_translate -ot Float32 -of SAGA PG: ...
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GDAL/OGR Determine if dataset is raster or vector

I am writing a script using the GDAL/OGR Python bindings and it is possible that the user may provide a raster dataset or a vector dataset as input. If the user provides a vector dataset, the script ...
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How to subset raster image using gdal?

I have read pixel values of an raster image using GDAL libraries in visual studio 2010(vc++). Now I have to crop the image (subset) according to the grid given in shape file. I have got a code for ...
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How do you open shapefiles with ogr2ogr

I'm following along the D3 tutorial, and on this line: ogr2ogr \ -f GeoJSON \ -where "adm0_a3 IN ('GBR', 'IRL')" \ subunits.json \ ne_10m_admin_0_map_subunits.shp run into the following ...
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gdalwarp cutline along with shapefile

I am trying to clip my Raster file according to a shape file geometry. I am using the following code gdalwarp -cutline INPUT.shp INPUT.tif OUTPUT.tif But it is resulting a black color outside the ...
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gdal ImportError in python on Windows

Trying to import gdal for Python 2.7.3 on Windows XP: >>> import gdal Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File ...
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Use Overviews to Select Area of Interest in Very Large GIS Rasters/Images (e.g., GeoTiff's)

I am working with large images in Python and Gdal on a Windows machine and wondering if it is possible to directly access the specific smaller overviews I built into them using gdladdo. I am viewing ...
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What's the difference between gdalwarp and gdal_merge for mosaicing

I wanted to merge around 20 dem tiffs each around 100MB, and I used gdalwarp (I know about virtual file option): gdalwarp $(list_of_tiffs) merged.tiff However this command took very long time, and ...
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How to work with GDAL/OGR in Tomcat?

I make web application in Eclipse using GDAL. In Eclipse in Debug Configurations i add variable path=path/to/gdal/folder. In project i add gdal.jar to build path and copy gdal folder in lib directory. ...
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How do I Capture GDAL projection and create matching output (OGR or GDAL) shape files?

Working in C++, using GDAL and OGR: Depending on what the user has supplied for image input, I need to output point (or other) shape files in the same projection as the input raster images. The ...
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Rasterize shapefile to a new gtiff file with gdal_rasterize utility,however,I cannot open the tif file?

Now I'm tring to rasterize a shapefile with a utility "gdal_rasterize" and want to generate a new gtiff file,but when I open the rasterized gtiff file,it prompts "Windows Photo Viewer can't open this ...
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Gdal Dataset.ReadAsArray() crashes Python

I am using Python 2.6.5 (32bit) with Numpy 1.3 and Gdal 1.9.1 installed on Windows 7 64bit. I am trying to read an 800 MB Imagine (.img) raster dataset into a Numpy array to do some raster algebra, ...
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GeoEye BGRN --> RGB

I got many GeoEye files with BGRN color format. The image looks gray. -co PHOTOMETRIC=RGB ALPHA=NO gives greenish color. Rearranging bands does not work too. Could someone help me convert this image ...
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Where can the GDAL executables be found in a QGIS installation?

I run QGIS 1.8.0 Lisboa on a Windows 7 machine. Yesterday I attempted to install the TauDEM plugin using these instructions: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2012-June/020807.html ...
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Multiple versions of GDAL (32bit and 64bit) on same machine

I currently have GDAL installed on my Windows 7 64bit workstation. It is the 32bit version. I chose the 32 bit version because I wanted to use the GDAL Python bindings with a 32bit installation of ...
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Python equivalent of gdalbuildvrt

Is there a way to perform the same task as the gdalbuildvrt utility using GDAL Python bindings? So far I have not found any way to do this other than creating a vrt of a single dataset and manually ...

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