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How to convert .geotiff --> .tiff?

How to convert .geotiff files to .tiff files (ordinary plain images)? Basically, I have cropped the image to a rectangle of interest and knowing its left-lower location and having chosen the pixel ...
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How to generate TFW files for a list of images?

I have a few digital images that are not georeferenced. E.g.: Img01.tif Img02.tif ... Img99.tif On the other hand, I have a text file, which contains georeferencing information for these ...
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How to get Lon/Lat values from the postgis raster type column

I have a tiff raster in my PostGIS 2.0 database. I want to get the value lat/lon and extra data like temperature from the raster type column in postgis table. I want the table with columns ...
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GeoServer/Leaflet - Context menu to change raster [duplicate]

It's my first GIS project and after days of reading, it is still not clear how I should start. I'm using GeoServer to serve GeoTiff images in WMS to a leaflet application. It works great. Those ...
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MrSid => GeoTiff

I have a MrSid file that I would like to convert to a GeoTiff. Is there a way to do this on a Mac running Mountain Lion? I know it can be done on Windows and Linux using the LizardTech command line ...
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Grass 7 / ArcGIS 9.3 - tiff to raster

Again a Grass 7 question. I have the output of a modelling run as matlab file, which I can export as tiff and load as geotiff. OK - now can I extract the data/convert this tiff into a raster proper? ...
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GDAL_translate: converting ESRI GRID to Geotiff in batch

The Challenge: To batch convert 1000 rasters in ESRI Grid binary to Geotiff using either using a batch file or Python 2.7 without ArcGIS/Arcpy module. The Tools: Win7Pro, GDAL 1.9.2 (via OSGeo4W), ...
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How to geocorrect in qgis?

I need to fit a utm wgs84 tiff raster to a topomap in the same projection. I use GCP and it invariably fails. The first raster uncorrected rater superimpose well, the "geocorrected" raster is ...
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Recoloring geotiff for visual presentation

I have a rather big Geotiff. It is the mosaic of four RapidEye satellite images. They are all a bit bland/grayish. When combined I would like to freshen up their colors so that they are more visually ...
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Overlay Shapefile onto Geotiff

I have a Geotiff map and I want to overlay a Shapefile onto it. Ideally I want to specify a 'nice' style for the polygons e.g. have them opaque (for now all polygons should be the same). I want to ...
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Setting projection to a geotiff file when it's shown as Unknown

I have a geotiff file that has no CRS in the metadata but I know that the CRS of the raster is WGS 84 UTM 22 N. How can I modify the geotiff file to have the CRS WGS 84 UTM 22 N in the metadata. ...
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Why do TIF loaded into PostGIS lose their colormap?

I have successfully loaded a TIF image (using raster2pgsql) into my PostGIS 2.0.1 database. I can load the raster image into QGIS and it displays in the correct space. However, it has lost all colour ...
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Creating a mask with transparent pixels in python

I have a geotiff image with pixel intensities ranging between certain values. Lets say bewteen -2 and 2 (the image is normalized). I have a certain threshold which interests me, lets sat 1. I would ...
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Display Rectangular Data Grid

I'd like a Linux program which displays ASCII ArcGrid files (NxM rectangular ASCII data grids which may have either integer or floating point values). There is no practical upper or lower limit to ...
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Global composite of radar data available?

Iowa State offers an exceptional NEXRAD composite image as GeoTIFF for the entire continental US at a reasonable resolution. Is there a comparable GeoTIFF composite updated semi-regularly available ...
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rgb2pct.py increases size of file 20 fold!

I wanted to reduce the number of bands of a tif file from 3 to 1... I used this command rgb2pct.py -n 256 fnp_braunschweig.tif fnp_bs.tif and it increased the size from 31mb to 778mb I actually ...
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What is the correct way to convert a USGS Orthoimage from WorldImage format to tiled GeoTiff for GeoServer?

USGS provides different resolution orthoimage quadrangles in the WorldImage format (*.tif with an accompanying *.tfw world file). Some of these quadrangles can be used by GeoServer (2.1.0 - 2.1.2) by ...
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Extract all pixels of given RGB value and render as MultiPolygons

Given a geotiff image with a colortable in it, what is the easiest way to extract each color as its own "layer or shapefile or multipolygon object"? Specifically, I am looking for a programmatic ...
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How to convert from GeoTIFF to PNG/JPG and Web Mercator in Java?

I'd like to convert raster image from (geo)tiff to an png/jpg and afterwards if it is necessary ... I'd like to convert the coordinates with help of EPSG-Codes to the OSM/Google Projection(EPSG: ...
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Easily find centre point of a raster in ArcMap 10 document?

If I have, say, a rectangular and georeferenced raster file loaded in an ArcMap 10 document (.tiff w/ associated tfw), how do I easily find its centre point and store that point in a points vector ...
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Speed of various raster data formats

I'm having trouble locating any discussion or comparative benchmarking of different raster file formats (e.g., for use in data analysis in R). Does anybody have any insight into why particular formats ...
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Best way to manage large number of geoTiff rasters

I have around 2-3000 1-bit geoTiffs of size 11000x9400. Color 0 should be transparent, and QGis gets it wrong in the first place, so I used a .vrt file to set all the parameters in one single place. ...
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GeoTIFF raster layer, c#

We have a map rendering engine (renders from MapInfo Interchange Format). This engine uses Mercator Projection. Now we have to insert a raster layer (orthophotos of a city), we have GeoTIFF files with ...
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JPG file all black when added as raster in QGIS

I add a new raster layer in the latest QGIS and select a JPG file, but it is all black. I tried adding the TIF version of the same image and that worked. What is it with the JPG, and how should I ...