Hi Jonathan,

Is it possible that QGIS is using the infrared band as an alpha channel? This might explain the whitening effect, especially in non-vegetated areas. I would check the Layer properties Transparency tab to see whether anything is set as the transparency band. If it is, you could override QGIS by setting a default style.

Cheers,

Andy

On 02/12/2013 11:53, Jonathan Moules wrote:
Hi List,
I've got a 4 band raster aerial photography (RGBI) that comprises lots of tiles. I've merged some of the tiles together with:

gdal_merge -o 1.tif -of GTiff -co TILED=YES -co BIGTIFF=YES -co COMPRESS=JPEG -co JPEG_QUALITY=50 -co BLOCKXSIZE=512 -co BLOCKYSIZE=512 --optfile tiff_list.txt

But the resultant file looks funny in QGIS.
This is what the source file looks like (correct):
Inline images 1

This is what the merged file looks like (wrong):
Inline images 2

All the shadows are a whitey colour. This doesn't happen with 3-band (RGB) images.
I've tried comparing individual bands; they all look different in the 4-band.

However, if I open the four-band in ArcGIS, it looks fine (both source and original).

Anyone know what's going on? Is it a QGIS bug or is it doing something "smart"; I can't see anything odd going on with symbology.

Thanks,
Jonathan

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