Questions tagged [gdalbuildvrt]
The GDAL command to build a VRT (Virtual Dataset).
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How to make a VRT with an input raster containing multi bands?
I have 3 different rasters each containing 2 bands. Such as :
Input1.tif B1 B2
Input2.tif B1 B2
Input3.tif B1 B2
I want to build a vrt with the B2 of each raster. With gdalbuildvrt I always get ...
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Error with gdal_translate in R
I am trying to mosaic very large rasters in R. My code, taken from this helpful answer, worked perfectly for 3 test rasters (50 MB, 50 MB, 120 MB), but when I tried a larger test on 7 rasters (...
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gdalbuildvrt fails to allocate memory
I have 92 GeoTIFFs which vary subtantially in disk size, from around 60MB to 1.4GB rasters. I would like to build a mosaic of these slightly overlapping rasters, and I have read that one of the best ...
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Stacking a raster with GDAL in python - vrt, translate, merge giving errors
I'm trying to create a composite of all my sentinel bands into one tif in python. I've tried doing a few things but nothing seems to be working. I am using an arcpy python environment as I need a few ...
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Problems with .ecw files using gdalbuildvrt
I used
gdalbuildvrt C:\Users\Vector_district.vrt D:\177_SwissImage_10cm_2017_190410\2548\*.ecw
trying to create a vrt.
The console gives back following error for each file in the folder:
ERROR 4:
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Creating overview images for individual rasters becomes more flexible when the layer is partially updated. How do I do this?
I use a GeoServer.
I want to create a layer from a mosaic that I got using gdal from a vrt file that is created from pieces of a map whose size is 9 000 000 * 3 000 000 pixels.
To create a VRT file, ...
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Grid_metrics fails to create grid_metrics.vrt
I need to obtain the metrics for a denoised normalized dataset. This is part of the code that I am using:
ctg_denoised <- readLAScatalog("G:/NoBackUp/denoised/")
opt_chunk_buffer(ctg_denoised) <...
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gdal_merge runs indefinitely, crashes system, BSOD
I have two small rasters. Same resolution, SRID, type, format. When I use gdal_merge, the console keeps running the command ad infinitum.
import time, os
ot = "UInt16"
of = "GTiff"...
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QGIS use multiple rasterfiles: virtual raster with Python
I'm new to QGIS (using version 3.4). I'd like to make our raster files ready to use. There are 5k rasters in one folder with several subfolders. What's the best way to display them all in QGIS?
I ...
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Build Mosaic using gdal based on Modal value
I have an immense (~50,000) set of tiles that I want to mosaic using the mode for every pixel. The tiles have a size of 299x299 and are overlapping each other by 2/3 respectively.
For the sake of ...
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gdalbuildvrt error 1: unable to find 'location' in DBF
I'm trying to create a vrt file with several shapes which I had created previously with gdal_contour (all of them only have 1 feature):
gdalbuildvrt -input_file_list tiles.txt vrtFile.vrt
But I got ...
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GDAL virtual dataset with transparency
I'm trying to create image pyramid of multiple smaller images for GeoServer use. I have done this by first creating virtual dataset with gdalbuildvrt and then with gdal_retile.py.
The problem I'm ...
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error: Gdalbuildvrt does not support rotated geo transforms?
I try to convert several tiff to vrt -file. All tif-files are in same projection (EPSG:3067). I get error message: Gdalbuildvrt does not support rotated geo transforms. What this mean and how to avoid ...
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Multiband GeoTIFF loading slow in browser
Here's the problem: http://www.doctorharapos.com/webMap/geotiff.html
My GeoTIFF files are light, just 4MB
My process: starting from an ASCII Esri file I transform it to GeoTIFF using gdalwarp, ...
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Merging multiple QgsRasterLayer objects to create virtual raster (.vrt file) using gdal
I am creating multiple QgsRasterLayer objects in pyqgis and I need to merge them into a virtual raster .vrt file which will eventually be loaded as a layer in QGIS.
The QgsRasterLayer objects are ...
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GDAL C# Bindings for VRT don't write a VRT file
I have previously asked this question on stack overflow, and am now asking this more specialized audience.
I'm wondering why the GDAL C# library (v2.3.3) call to Gdal.wrapper_GDALBuildVRT_names(...) ...
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sampling error using gdalwarp on a subsetted VRT?
I am currently trying to prepare an SRTM subset including height conversion from EGM96 to WGS84 using gdalwarp. I encountered some strange shifts in part of the image.
Here is a reproducible example:
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Gdal.BuildVRT not creating any output
I am trying to create a mosaic of all the images in file_list, Using:
> vrt_options = gdal.BuildVRTOptions(resampleAlg='cubic', addAlpha=True)
> gdal.BuildVRT('C:\\my.vrt', file_list, ...
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How to construct dataset in memory that is built from CSV and VRT file?
I'm using GDAL .Net wrapper, GDAL.Net.
I have a list of scattered points ( in X,Y,Z coordinates) that I would like to rasterized via the function GDAL_GRID( or via the underlying .Net wrapper, Gdal....
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gdal: create a tile index or VRT from a folder of downloaded map tiles
I need to use GDAL tools to either create a tile index or create a VRT from a folder full of map tiles. The folder is in the format:
<zoom_level>
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|-- <row_number>
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“gdalbuildvrt command not found” in Build Virtual Raster tool
I am trying to use the "Build Virtual Raster" tool in QGIS 3 to build a mosaic. When I run the tool, I get the following message:
GDAL command output:
/bin/sh: gdalbuildvrt: command not found
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Virtual Raster Mosaic - gdalbuildvrt - data gaps
I'm trying to create a virtual mosaic of several raster images (.tif) in R using the function "gdalbuildvrt" from the "gdal" package. The raster images are flight lines from a drone flight over a ...
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Using python gdal.BuildVRTOptions()
I want to define no data values when working with gdal.BuildVRT(). According to the gdal.documentation http://gdal.org/python/osgeo.gdal-module.html, by creating a gdal.BuildVRTOptions (srcNodata=-99, ...
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Set georeferenced extents of VRT file when calling GDALBuildVRT
I'm using Jupyter Notebook and gdalbuildvrt to write a program that loads hundreds of rasters. I want to set an area of interest, and only keep rasters (or portions of rasters) that fall in this area.
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Using gdalbuildvrt in R gives Warning Message … had status 1?
I want to make a mosaic out of several raster files that are next to each other, all including 4 bands. Due to saving space on the server I need to build a vrt and want to write the code in R, so I ...
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When should I use gdal_merge.py?
When building a single georeferenced image from a collection of tiles, gdalbuildvrt followed by gdal_translate is much faster than gdal_merge.py.
In my own measurements of
gdal_merge.py \
--...
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gdal_vrtmerge.py vs. gdalbuildvrt
In the gdalbuildvrt documentation, I read
This utility is somehow equivalent to the gdal_vrtmerge.py utility [...]
So what is the difference (if any) between gdalbuildvrt and gdal_vrtmerge.py?
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C++ GDAL API: Add more than one rasters to VRT
I want to add more than one tiff file into a vrt file, Well Based on GDAL documentations it is possible to create a vrt using this code
GDALDriver *poDriver = (GDALDriver *) GDALGetDriverByName( "VRT"...
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Trying to run GDALbuildVRT in command line
I have a directory of OS data stored as tiff files (approximately 2000), which I want to create a virtual raster with. I understand that you can run this in the QGIS UI but because of the large number ...
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QGIS Python Programming Error - Build Virtual Raster (.vrt file) - Error : Unable to execute algorithm Wrong parameter value : [closed]
I am reading a single row from a text file createvrt_row0.txt. The row is :
E:/Sreeraj/Task Global Data CONVERSION/Split/1 deg tiles_Global agri_data/N31E2.tif;E:/Sreeraj/Task Global Data CONVERSION/...
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How to fix positive North-South Pixel size in GeoTIFF with GDAL
I have issues with some GeoTIFF raster files with positive NS resolution (North-South)
gdalinfo gave me this:
Pixel Size = (1.000000000000000,1.000000000000000)
I run into all kind of problem with ...
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Reading Gdal VRT format
How can I read a gdal vrt file with GDALOpen function?
I have a vrt file built with gdalbuildvrt and I want to read it using GDALOpen but It returns a null dataset, Is it even possible?
In this code ...
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How Does QGIS Read 'nodata' in 3 Band Raster Data?
I have 3 band GeoTiffs of aerial imagery. The imagery is byte data with values of 0-255 on each band. A 'nodata' value has not been assigned on any band. I am assembling these images using a VRT, ...
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Unable to export GeoTIFF file with different datatypes per different bands
Already read Merge Multi-Band Geotiff with different datatypes (with gdal) but can't apply that solution so please do not flag as duplicate.
I have near 3.000 geotiff files that I need to merge into ...
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Saving VRT file crashes QGIS
When I load a .vrt file, the image comes in with a black and blue tint usually or is some other weird color. If I zoom in at all QGIS crashes and creates a minidump in my program folder. Also, when I ...
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gdalbuildvrt vs gdal_merge on overlapping images
I once have used gdalbuildvrt on georeferenced images. That was okay when images did not overlap, It was also time efficient compared to gdal_merge or gdal_warp. Now I have overlapping images and ...
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Create VRT from TIFFs with different projections
Basically, I have a bunch of different TIFF files, each with their own projection (I think). I want to eventually mosaic and tile them all. But before I tile them I have to combine all the TIFFs in a ...
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Running a line from a terminal for QGIS [duplicate]
I am trying to run this code:
# create virtual multi-band raster
gdalbuildvrt -separate rgb.vrt red.tif green.tif blue.tif
# write multi-band raster into geotiff
gdal_translate -of GTiff -co ...
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ERROR 1: Failed to write .vrt file in FlushCache()
I'm trying to build .vrt from georeferenced DEM files from Photoscan.
gdalbuildvrt global_dem.vrt dem*.tif
It was working on Ubuntu 12.04(GDAL 1.10.0, released 2013/04/24), but now it fails on ...
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Export VRT to GeoTIFF in Python
I'm trying to export a Virtual raster (VRT) to GeoTIFF in Python 2.7 (Windows 10 System), but code runs with some problems.
When i try export the following image (.vrt file) to GeoTIFF i had a ...
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Filling nodata value gdal.BuildVRT
I'm trying to mosaic several rasters with gdal.BuildVRT in Python 2.7 (Windows system), but code runs with logical problems.
When I try to merge 3 Landsat images datasets, resulting image is a tile (...
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Can you create a virtual vector from zipped Ordnance Survey Open Names?
Ordnance Survey Open Names data comes as a zipped directory containing header-less CSVs for each 10km OS Grid square. The headers are in another, one line CSV. The data contains various attributes and ...
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Saving VRT as raster?
I have made a VRT out of a few different single band rasters. I've played around with it in QGIS and it's great and I can do a save as and it'll become a real raster. To do further processing in the ...
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gdalwarp causes ERROR 6: PNG driver doesn't support 6 bands in gdal2tiles
I've a problem with my gdalwarp function.
What I've done:
I built a .vrt file from 6 .tif images:
gdalbuildvrt -overwrite /input/base.vrt /home/tiles/BASE/*.tif
My gdalinfo looks like that:
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GDAL concatenating vrts
I'd like to concatenate a few vrts together. So i have three vrts representing data from different years and to make my life easier would like just to have one vrt created from the three vrts.
Each ...
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Use gdalbuildvrt then gdal_translate changes Corner Coordinates
when I use:
gdalwarp -dstalpha -multi -t_srs epsg:900913 b172.tif b282.tif b770.tif b771.tif b772.tif b832.tif w_25k.tif
I can get one merged tif then go through gdal2tiles for tiling
But if I use ...
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Multiband virtual raster with gdalbuildvrt: Control how bands are sorted
I am making a multiband virtual raster using gdalbuildvrt. Everything works fine, but a little detail remains annoying: I cannot control how the bands are sorted. I specified the input raster using ...
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GDAL VRT - gap artifact in output
I have created a VRT using gdalbuildvrt from three single-band GeoTiffs (1-m resolution) as follows:
gdalbuildvrt chm_2157.vrt P_712806_CHM.tif P_712808_CHM.tif P_712810_CHM.tif -a_srs 'epsg:2157' -...
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Create VRT from shapefile using a where clause
I am wondering if there is a way to create a .vrt using a shapefile, but specifying attributes through a where clause. I have made a .vrt from a sub section shapefile (pre selected the tiles and ...
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OS terrain 50: .vrt from zip files [closed]
I tried to follow what was suggested in How to use OS Terrain 50 in QGIS, but I got the following problem:
in spite of being generally able to generate .vrt files using gdalbuildvrt from unzipped ....
