Re: [gdal-dev] Extracting (arbitrary?) overviews from ECW file
I believe I learned how to do this, so to answer my own question: Some of the Band.ReadRaster(...) methods allow to explictly specify the buffer width and height, e.g. [1]. This allows to extract resolutions that differs from the original image (and the overviews). Best regards, Markus [1] http://gdal.org/java/org/gdal/gdal/Band.html#ReadRaster(int, int, int, int, int, int, int, byte[]) Am 05.09.2013 18:01, schrieb Markus Schneider: Frank, thanks for your reply. Could you (or somebody else) give me a few more details how to get hold of a raster region with a resolution that is not defined by an overview? Currently, I am able to extract regions from an overview using the following steps (in Java): ... Dataset dataset = gdal.Open( dataset.ecw, GA_ReadOnly ); Band band = dataset.GetRasterBand( ... ); band = band.GetOverview(...); band.ReadRaster(x,y, ...) ... Afterwards, I have the raw data values in my array. It works fine for any overview. My problem is that I cannot figure out how to get hold of a Band for a non-predefined overview. How would I do this? Best regards, Markus Am 04.09.2013 18:15, schrieb Frank Warmerdam: Markus, I believe the GDAL ECW driver will pass RasterIO() requests through to the ECW SDK to evaluate meaning that there is no constraint based on the advertized power-of-two overviews exposed from GDAL and no loss of quality. Best regards, Frank On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Markus Schneider schnei...@occamlabs.de mailto:schnei...@occamlabs.de wrote: Dear list, I am new to programming with GDAL (and to the ECW format). Let me say thank you first, because my first experiences have been rather pleasant, even if my setup is relatively involved (thanks everybody for providing good documentation): - Ubuntu 12.04 (AMD64) - GDAL 1.10.1 (build from source) - ECW SDK 5.0 - GDAL Java bindings I successfully created a toy Java class for extracting regions from an ECW file. Speed is impressive. My observations/questions: - If I understand correctly, ECW files internally do not have such a thing as fixed overviews. However, ECW supports extraction of regions with specified resolution on-the-fly. Is this correct? - GDAL API reports overviews for ECW datasets. Having a first look at the code, it seems to generate overview dimensions by subsequently dividing height and width by two (until a minium side length of 128 has been reached). Final question: Is it possible to efficiently retrieve (regions of) overviews at self-defined scales using the GDAL API? Or do I have to use the ECW SDK for that? Keep up the good work. Thanks for any pointers. Best regards, Markus -- Markus Schneider CEO Occam Labs UG (haftungsbeschränkt) Godesberger Allee 139 53175 Bonn, Germany +49 228 93798874 tel:%2B49%20228%2093798874 http://www.occamlabs.de ___ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev -- ---+-- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmer...@pobox.com mailto:warmer...@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush| Geospatial Software Developer ___ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev -- Markus Schneider CEO Occam Labs UG (haftungsbeschränkt) Godesberger Allee 139 53175 Bonn, Germany +49 228 93798874 http://www.occamlabs.de signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
Re: [gdal-dev] Extracting (arbitrary?) overviews from ECW file
There's one question remaining: Will the mentioned methods automatically select the best-matching overview, or do I have to do this myselft in order to achieve the best performance? This probably doesn't matter to ECW, but to other image formats with real overviews (such as GeoTIFF), right? Best regards, Markus Am 10.09.2013 11:13, schrieb Markus Schneider: I believe I learned how to do this, so to answer my own question: Some of the Band.ReadRaster(...) methods allow to explictly specify the buffer width and height, e.g. [1]. This allows to extract resolutions that differs from the original image (and the overviews). Best regards, Markus [1] http://gdal.org/java/org/gdal/gdal/Band.html#ReadRaster(int, int, int, int, int, int, int, byte[]) Am 05.09.2013 18:01, schrieb Markus Schneider: Frank, thanks for your reply. Could you (or somebody else) give me a few more details how to get hold of a raster region with a resolution that is not defined by an overview? Currently, I am able to extract regions from an overview using the following steps (in Java): ... Dataset dataset = gdal.Open( dataset.ecw, GA_ReadOnly ); Band band = dataset.GetRasterBand( ... ); band = band.GetOverview(...); band.ReadRaster(x,y, ...) ... Afterwards, I have the raw data values in my array. It works fine for any overview. My problem is that I cannot figure out how to get hold of a Band for a non-predefined overview. How would I do this? Best regards, Markus Am 04.09.2013 18:15, schrieb Frank Warmerdam: Markus, I believe the GDAL ECW driver will pass RasterIO() requests through to the ECW SDK to evaluate meaning that there is no constraint based on the advertized power-of-two overviews exposed from GDAL and no loss of quality. Best regards, Frank On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Markus Schneider schnei...@occamlabs.de mailto:schnei...@occamlabs.de wrote: Dear list, I am new to programming with GDAL (and to the ECW format). Let me say thank you first, because my first experiences have been rather pleasant, even if my setup is relatively involved (thanks everybody for providing good documentation): - Ubuntu 12.04 (AMD64) - GDAL 1.10.1 (build from source) - ECW SDK 5.0 - GDAL Java bindings I successfully created a toy Java class for extracting regions from an ECW file. Speed is impressive. My observations/questions: - If I understand correctly, ECW files internally do not have such a thing as fixed overviews. However, ECW supports extraction of regions with specified resolution on-the-fly. Is this correct? - GDAL API reports overviews for ECW datasets. Having a first look at the code, it seems to generate overview dimensions by subsequently dividing height and width by two (until a minium side length of 128 has been reached). Final question: Is it possible to efficiently retrieve (regions of) overviews at self-defined scales using the GDAL API? Or do I have to use the ECW SDK for that? Keep up the good work. Thanks for any pointers. Best regards, Markus -- Markus Schneider CEO Occam Labs UG (haftungsbeschränkt) Godesberger Allee 139 53175 Bonn, Germany +49 228 93798874 tel:%2B49%20228%2093798874 http://www.occamlabs.de ___ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev -- ---+-- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmer...@pobox.com mailto:warmer...@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush| Geospatial Software Developer ___ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev ___ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev -- Markus Schneider CEO Occam Labs UG (haftungsbeschränkt) Godesberger Allee 139 53175 Bonn, Germany +49 228 93798874 http://www.occamlabs.de signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
Re: [gdal-dev] Extracting (arbitrary?) overviews from ECW file
Ok, I just tried it out with an example GeoTIFF, and the mentioned methods seem to benefit from overviews in the file, so it seems to automatically do the right thing. Best regards, Markus Am 10.09.2013 11:20, schrieb Markus Schneider: There's one question remaining: Will the mentioned methods automatically select the best-matching overview, or do I have to do this myselft in order to achieve the best performance? This probably doesn't matter to ECW, but to other image formats with real overviews (such as GeoTIFF), right? Best regards, Markus Am 10.09.2013 11:13, schrieb Markus Schneider: I believe I learned how to do this, so to answer my own question: Some of the Band.ReadRaster(...) methods allow to explictly specify the buffer width and height, e.g. [1]. This allows to extract resolutions that differs from the original image (and the overviews). Best regards, Markus [1] http://gdal.org/java/org/gdal/gdal/Band.html#ReadRaster(int, int, int, int, int, int, int, byte[]) Am 05.09.2013 18:01, schrieb Markus Schneider: Frank, thanks for your reply. Could you (or somebody else) give me a few more details how to get hold of a raster region with a resolution that is not defined by an overview? Currently, I am able to extract regions from an overview using the following steps (in Java): ... Dataset dataset = gdal.Open( dataset.ecw, GA_ReadOnly ); Band band = dataset.GetRasterBand( ... ); band = band.GetOverview(...); band.ReadRaster(x,y, ...) ... Afterwards, I have the raw data values in my array. It works fine for any overview. My problem is that I cannot figure out how to get hold of a Band for a non-predefined overview. How would I do this? Best regards, Markus Am 04.09.2013 18:15, schrieb Frank Warmerdam: Markus, I believe the GDAL ECW driver will pass RasterIO() requests through to the ECW SDK to evaluate meaning that there is no constraint based on the advertized power-of-two overviews exposed from GDAL and no loss of quality. Best regards, Frank On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Markus Schneider schnei...@occamlabs.de mailto:schnei...@occamlabs.de wrote: Dear list, I am new to programming with GDAL (and to the ECW format). Let me say thank you first, because my first experiences have been rather pleasant, even if my setup is relatively involved (thanks everybody for providing good documentation): - Ubuntu 12.04 (AMD64) - GDAL 1.10.1 (build from source) - ECW SDK 5.0 - GDAL Java bindings I successfully created a toy Java class for extracting regions from an ECW file. Speed is impressive. My observations/questions: - If I understand correctly, ECW files internally do not have such a thing as fixed overviews. However, ECW supports extraction of regions with specified resolution on-the-fly. Is this correct? - GDAL API reports overviews for ECW datasets. Having a first look at the code, it seems to generate overview dimensions by subsequently dividing height and width by two (until a minium side length of 128 has been reached). Final question: Is it possible to efficiently retrieve (regions of) overviews at self-defined scales using the GDAL API? Or do I have to use the ECW SDK for that? Keep up the good work. Thanks for any pointers. Best regards, Markus -- Markus Schneider CEO Occam Labs UG (haftungsbeschränkt) Godesberger Allee 139 53175 Bonn, Germany +49 228 93798874 tel:%2B49%20228%2093798874 http://www.occamlabs.de ___ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev -- ---+-- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmer...@pobox.com mailto:warmer...@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush| Geospatial Software Developer ___ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev ___ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev ___ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev -- Markus Schneider CEO Occam Labs UG (haftungsbeschränkt) Godesberger Allee 139 53175 Bonn, Germany +49 228 93798874 http://www.occamlabs.de signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
Re: [gdal-dev] Extracting (arbitrary?) overviews from ECW file
Frank, thanks for your reply. Could you (or somebody else) give me a few more details how to get hold of a raster region with a resolution that is not defined by an overview? Currently, I am able to extract regions from an overview using the following steps (in Java): ... Dataset dataset = gdal.Open( dataset.ecw, GA_ReadOnly ); Band band = dataset.GetRasterBand( ... ); band = band.GetOverview(...); band.ReadRaster(x,y, ...) ... Afterwards, I have the raw data values in my array. It works fine for any overview. My problem is that I cannot figure out how to get hold of a Band for a non-predefined overview. How would I do this? Best regards, Markus Am 04.09.2013 18:15, schrieb Frank Warmerdam: Markus, I believe the GDAL ECW driver will pass RasterIO() requests through to the ECW SDK to evaluate meaning that there is no constraint based on the advertized power-of-two overviews exposed from GDAL and no loss of quality. Best regards, Frank On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Markus Schneider schnei...@occamlabs.de mailto:schnei...@occamlabs.de wrote: Dear list, I am new to programming with GDAL (and to the ECW format). Let me say thank you first, because my first experiences have been rather pleasant, even if my setup is relatively involved (thanks everybody for providing good documentation): - Ubuntu 12.04 (AMD64) - GDAL 1.10.1 (build from source) - ECW SDK 5.0 - GDAL Java bindings I successfully created a toy Java class for extracting regions from an ECW file. Speed is impressive. My observations/questions: - If I understand correctly, ECW files internally do not have such a thing as fixed overviews. However, ECW supports extraction of regions with specified resolution on-the-fly. Is this correct? - GDAL API reports overviews for ECW datasets. Having a first look at the code, it seems to generate overview dimensions by subsequently dividing height and width by two (until a minium side length of 128 has been reached). Final question: Is it possible to efficiently retrieve (regions of) overviews at self-defined scales using the GDAL API? Or do I have to use the ECW SDK for that? Keep up the good work. Thanks for any pointers. Best regards, Markus -- Markus Schneider CEO Occam Labs UG (haftungsbeschränkt) Godesberger Allee 139 53175 Bonn, Germany +49 228 93798874 tel:%2B49%20228%2093798874 http://www.occamlabs.de ___ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev -- ---+-- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmer...@pobox.com mailto:warmer...@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush| Geospatial Software Developer -- Markus Schneider CEO Occam Labs UG (haftungsbeschränkt) Godesberger Allee 139 53175 Bonn, Germany +49 228 93798874 http://www.occamlabs.de signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
Re: [gdal-dev] Extracting (arbitrary?) overviews from ECW file
Markus, I believe the GDAL ECW driver will pass RasterIO() requests through to the ECW SDK to evaluate meaning that there is no constraint based on the advertized power-of-two overviews exposed from GDAL and no loss of quality. Best regards, Frank On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Markus Schneider schnei...@occamlabs.dewrote: Dear list, I am new to programming with GDAL (and to the ECW format). Let me say thank you first, because my first experiences have been rather pleasant, even if my setup is relatively involved (thanks everybody for providing good documentation): - Ubuntu 12.04 (AMD64) - GDAL 1.10.1 (build from source) - ECW SDK 5.0 - GDAL Java bindings I successfully created a toy Java class for extracting regions from an ECW file. Speed is impressive. My observations/questions: - If I understand correctly, ECW files internally do not have such a thing as fixed overviews. However, ECW supports extraction of regions with specified resolution on-the-fly. Is this correct? - GDAL API reports overviews for ECW datasets. Having a first look at the code, it seems to generate overview dimensions by subsequently dividing height and width by two (until a minium side length of 128 has been reached). Final question: Is it possible to efficiently retrieve (regions of) overviews at self-defined scales using the GDAL API? Or do I have to use the ECW SDK for that? Keep up the good work. Thanks for any pointers. Best regards, Markus -- Markus Schneider CEO Occam Labs UG (haftungsbeschränkt) Godesberger Allee 139 53175 Bonn, Germany +49 228 93798874 http://www.occamlabs.de ___ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev -- ---+-- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmer...@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush| Geospatial Software Developer ___ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
