I am trying to do some image analysis in Python but am unable to install GDAL due to limited rights. I have attempted copying some of the files and folders into my python folder but am constantly encountering the same error
ImportError: No module named _gdal
The searching that I have done always seems to point to some sort of installer for GDAL, but I am only able to copy the needed .py folders into my python folder.
Is there a way to do this on Windows and if not is there an alternative image reader that can properly open rasters?
sys.path results:
['C:\\Users\\ûser\\Documents\\Python Image Extractor\\Image Interpreter\\src', 'C:\\Python26\\ArcGIS10.0\\lib\\site-packages\\xlutils-1.5.2-py2.6.egg', 'C:\\Python26\\ArcGIS10.0\\lib\\site-packages\\xlrd-0.8.0-py2.6.egg', 'C:\\Python26\\ArcGIS10.0\\DLLs', 'C:\\Python26\\ArcGIS10.0\\lib', 'C:\\Python26\\ArcGIS10.0\\lib\\plat-win', 'C:\\Python26\\ArcGIS10.0\\lib\\lib-tk', 'C:\\Python26\\ArcGIS10.0', 'C:\\Python26\\ArcGIS10.0\\lib\\site-packages', 'C:\\Python26\\ArcGIS10.0\\lib\\site-packages\\PIL', 'C:\\Python26\\ArcGIS10.0\\lib\\site-packages\\win32', 'C:\\Python26\\ArcGIS10.0\\lib\\site-packages\\win32\\lib', 'C:\\Python26\\ArcGIS10.0\\lib\\site-packages\\Pythonwin', 'C:\\windows\\system32\\python26.zip', 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\ArcGIS\\Desktop10.0\\bin', 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\ArcGIS\\Desktop10.0\\arcpy', 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\ArcGIS\\Desktop10.0\\ArcToolbox\\Scripts']