Questions tagged [metadata]
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GeoNetwork 3.10 error after failed attempt to upgrade to 4.2
I tried to get back to GeoNetwork 3.10 with a PostgreSQL database backend.
However even if the specifc metadata are being shown: Call to api, the GUI fails.
In geonetwork.log I now see a lot of these ...
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QGIS 3 Metadata to ISO XML
Just found out that QGis 3.x has a metadata editor. That is great! Is there a tool to convert the metadata saved by QGIS (.qmd file) to a ISO-xml standard metadata file?
Why am I asking this: I ...
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Using GDAL or Python, how can I merge/combine 3 NITF images (RGB) into one image and keep the RPC metadata intact?
I'm looking to merge 3 imagery bands that are saved as separate files. The file format is NITF. The reason they are saved as NITF is because they have RPC metadata embedded into the images. I would ...
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How does built-in metadata search engine in QGIS work?
Can somebody explain how the built-in metadata search engine in QGIS 3.36 works?
I can see "Layer metadata search" in search box (Ctrl+K), but can't figure out which context it has. It ...
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Resize NITF while maintaining metadata
What I want to do: I'm working on enhancing a legacy NITF reader in C++. Before I touch it, I want to create a battery of unit tests to make sure I don't break things while I'm trying to improve them. ...
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GeoTIFF Data Extraction
Can a GeoTIFF have data like an attribute table in ESRI feature class or a .dbf file in shapefiles? I downloaded a dataset from here
https://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/download.php?ds=pop
which is a ...
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Nodata value error when uploading .tif files into Google Earth Engine
I am working with some data that somebody else prepared. The data consists of DEM .tif files that have been remapped to different values. When I attempt to upload these files to Google Earth Engine ...
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QgsLayerMetadata.combine(other) doesn't seem to work as intended in pyqgis application
Using Pyqgis, I am attempting to create rasters from some calculations then applying a stored metadata.qmd file from an elevation layer to those rasters as a default. I am able to successfully create ...
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Sentinel-1 SAR Level 1 Data
From where I can find the satellite Metadata ( satellite position vector, velocity) for the corresponding SAR Level 1 image?
I have tried to look but didn't find the source to download these files.
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Loading *.shp.xml file into shapefile for ArcGIS Desktop
I am using DRASTIC model and ArcGIS mapping for my thesis of groundwater assessment. I need to generate maps which includes Net Recharge map.
For that I need to export a landuse map and from the data ...
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Python/GDAL hyperspectral Image wavelengths
I can open and read a hyperspectral image using GDAL according to the instructions brought by Max König here:
So after reading the data like this :
data = gdal.Open( filename )
then I can see the x, ...
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QGIS & Python: creating XML metadata file: problem with namespace [closed]
I'm writing a Python processor for QGIS. He will export data and write metadata in XML so that we can upload our "document d'urbanisme" in the "geoportail de l'urbanisme" (https://...
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Figuring out aduisition dates of images from file names using Earthexplorer
I have multiple eMODIS NDVI V6 earthexplorer images that someone else downloaded some time ago. Given my internet and time limitations, I want to use such images in a forthcoming project. However, I ...
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Some metadata doesn't show up in manually created .shp.xml in QGIS?
I'm creating shapefiles in Python using geopandas from processed climatological information. This a simplified version of the code I'm using to generate the shapefiles:
import geopandas as gpd
from ...
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Extract Esri Open Data catalog metadata in R
I am looking to pull metadata information from an Esri Open Data site (aka GeoHub). Each dataset (i.e. HRM Parks) has non-spatial metadata about the dataset (i.e. published date, tags, etc.). When I ...
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What does the metadata tell you about an image and its sensor?
I'm using a software called ERDAS and my tutor says that the Metadata can be used to detect which sensor your image came from. Is there anything you can tell me that links the metadata to the sensor?
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QGIS Default Metadata
In QGIS 3.6.2 (on Windows 10), one can open the properties of a layer, click on Metadata, and enter information about the layer. At the bottom of the properties window is the option to save metadata ...
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QGIS Open Street Map plugin metadata
I am trying to use an old map I made in QGIS which has a base map from Open Street Map (OSM)
To credit OSM in my paper/chapter I need to find the date or at least the year of the OSM data,
OSM wiki ...
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Choosing Metadata Standard
I need help choosing the appropriate Metadata standard for a GDB for a local government. what are your recommendations and why ? what are the main differences between ISO 19139, ISO 19115 and FGDC.
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ArcGIS Pro Active Map Metadata Object is Read-only when accessing via ArcPy
I'm using ArcPy to get the current aprx, active map, then to create an empty metadata object, and populate it with values from a fGDB table, but I cant copy and save it back to the read only map ...
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Adding metadata to .rset file
I am was wondering if it is possible to view and add metadata to an R-Set file, converted from a NITF file https://www.mathworks.com/help/images/ref/rsetwrite.html.
With NITFs, I am able to use GDAL ...
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Harvesting rasters from GeoServer --empty string error
we are using GeoNetwork v.3.12.7.0 and we try to harvest rasters from Geoserver v.2.23.1.
While some rasters can be harvested successfully, we have errors for some others (see below for the log). We ...
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Publish the band descriptions from a TIFF in a WMS service with GeoServer
I have a multiband TIFF, where each band represents a time slice of a dataset.
The date of each band is stored in the Band Description. See the output from gdalinfo here:
Band 1 Block=476x1 Type=...
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Finding hurricane metadata
How do I find metadata shapefiles for hurricanes that occurred in Florida? I have tried searching for it but I don't know what I'm looking at.
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Updating metadata in geodatabase using fiona
I am trying to update the metadata on an already written .gdb with n layers. I would like to add the same metadata to each layer. When I read in the file and update the metadata dictionary, the added ...
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Adding metadata that describes each attribute field in QGIS
Using a GeoPackage layer at 3.28.9, I would like to add descriptive information for each of the layer's attribute fields as metadata. However, there is no Layer Properties > Metadata tab for ...
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Locking custom toolbox properties and metadata using ArcGIS Pro
I created a custom toolbox, made of models, for a client. I used ArcGIS Pro 1.0.1.
I would like to know if it is possible to "lock" the metadata and the properties of the toolbox models, so ...
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Locking Metadata using ArcMap
I've been asked by a customer if I can "lock" the metadata in their various geodatasets. I immediately asked why and was told that they don't want other organizations/users editing/deleting ...
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QGIS Server: Show value in abstract field of published WFS service
I published layers from a QGIS project as WFS Service using QGIS Server and everything works fine. Now I want to add a description to each layer, but can't find documentation on how to fill out the ...
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Get the installed plugins metadata using Python
I'm making a QGIS plugin and I need get the metadata of the installed plugins. Currently it works only if the plugin manager was opened manually before. If QGIS is reopened and the plugin manager was ...
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AttributeError: 'Layer' object has no attribute 'metadata' from ArcPy with ArcGIS Pro [closed]
I am trying to get the metadata for each layer within each map within a ArcGIS Pro project (.aprx file), but get this error message: AttributeError: 'Layer' object has no attribute 'metadata'. The ...
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GOES Image Viewer - GeoTIFF metadata
I am working with GOES Latest Full Disk Dust RGB product.
I do not want to process this product locally, thus I am downloading the GeoTIFF available in the website (rectangle 2 - attached image).
When ...
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How to write metadata from scratch for a point fc stored in a GDB?
I have a point feature class in a geodatabase. It doesn't contain metadata yet. I want to write one for it. I think I need to use XML Templater. But I can't read directly from GDB by adding a Esri GDB ...
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Reading and writing QgsLayerMetadata
QgsMapLayer.metadata() says that it "Returns a reference to the layer’s metadata store." as a QgsLayerMetadata object.
If I use it on a new layer (or the world easteregg layer), there won't ...
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Insert note to remember the info of a project
Sometimes I need to open an old project, and mostly I remember how it works (i.e. the structure, the formatting and so on) but sometimes not.
At other times I open a project composed by a colleague of ...
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Are elements in a GeoNetwork Feature Catalog dedicated records?
I am looking for a data catalog solution which supports metadata on attribute level. What kind of metadata can be managed for GeoNetwork's Feature Catalog elements? Are the elements dedicated, ...
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How to get the BBOX of selected features in QGIS using the UI?
Is there an easy way to get the BBOX of the currently selected vector features in QGIS?
I've seen How to quickly calculate bounding box coordinates of a selected polygon with QGIS but it does not ...
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Saving Metadata to DB (QGIS 3.4 or higher)
Is it possible to save metadata of a QGIS 3 layer in a database (PostGIS), similar to the function in QGIS 2.18 "save layer style to database".
I don't want to save it in the project or as a ...
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Exporting ArcGIS Metadata as PDF using ArcPy?
I've been asked to automate the exporting of metadata from ESRI feature classes into .pdf files. We don't want the .xml files, rather a .pdf version of what you see in the Description panel in Catalog....
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Deleting GeoTIFF Header/Spatial Reference data using open source software [closed]
I'm looking for a way to delete only the Header/Spatial Reference information from .tif DEM files, using QGIS or other open source tools.
I need to specifically remove this data from the DEMs while ...
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Import/Copy metadata from template to multiple raster datasets in file geodatabase with ArcGIS Pro using ArcPy
I have a file geodatabase with multiple DEM (raster datasets) and any of them should be imported metadata. I created a template metadata file with extension *.xml and tried to do it but not imported.
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How to retain the metadata information on clipped satellite image in QGIS
I am new to QGIS. I am working with some satellite images XML format and processing in QGIS. I would like to retain the information of metadata of original images after clipping . The clipped images ...
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Extract metadata with arcpy from orthoimagery
I'm very new to ArcGIS, and GIS is general. I am trying to build a script that will extract metadata from orthoimagery .tifs. Below is my test code to see if I can get the metadata from one file. It ...
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Using arcpy.ExportMetadata_conversion?
I don't know if it is a bug or my lack of python skills, but I keep getting 'ERROR 000816 The tool is not valid' in my python script when I call ExportMetadata_conversion
Initially, I was attempting ...
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Google Earth Engine Javascript - Add metadata properties list of string
I'm looking fo add a List of Strings value to properties of an image collection in google earth similar to Copernicus CORINE Land Cover:
https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/...
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Generating thumbnail from PostGIS table link directly
With GeoNetwork, I know it’s possible to create a PostreSQL/PostGIS link with metadata.
But from to this PostGIS acess feature, is it possible to generate a thumbnail? (like for the WMS protocol)
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Parsing XML Document file associated with shapefile into PostGIS/PostgreSQL table
I have a shapefile, and information on its attributes is stored in a XML Document format. For example, the attribute of COUNTY is stored as follows:
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<attrlabl>COUNTY</...
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ArcGIS Pro metadata: XML export will not retain field information
software: ArcGIS Pro 2.6.3 (2.8 attempted)
I am working with exporting metadata as an XML (Export on the Metadata catalog tab), from an enterprise geodatabase feature class. All necessary fields for ...
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Get mosaic images metadata using CSW
I am trying to get metadata of each mosaic image element defined with its attributes using datastore.properties postgis indexing method. Is it possible to get that info in some way using Geoserver CSW ...
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Generating geodata models for layers and their attributes in QGIS
Let's say I have a map with two different layers in QGIS:
'LayerA'. It has three attributes (fid, name, quantity) and its geometry is a MultiLine
'LayerB'. It has four attributes (fid, type, location,...
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