Re: [gdal-dev] GDAL Question about the band/frequence information

2013-03-28 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
I was recently looking into for some code I'm writing in R using rgdal, and I wanted to see if we could generate some new effort on this. While the way each file format specifies RS information may be different, there are some standard pieces of info that could be read/stored in a meaningful way w

[gdal-dev] Cropping to another image?

2013-04-23 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
GDALers: Is there a way to easily crop one image to the the extent of another image? --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Assistant Professor Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS) Laboratory Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science University of Illinois at Urba

[gdal-dev] gdal_translate file naming for sds and HDF4 files

2013-05-29 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Folks: I'm using a Windows install of GDAL 1.7.0 (FWTools) -- when I run: gdal_translate -sds -of "GTiff" [some.hdf] "myoutput" The output filenames do not have the .tif extension. If I set the output file to "myoutput.tif", it appends the "layer numbers" to the end of the file, e.g. myoutput.t

Re: [gdal-dev] gdal_translate file naming for sds and HDF4 files

2013-05-31 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
ity)? --j On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Etienne Tourigny wrote: > > > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Jukka Rahkonen > wrote: > >> Jonathan Greenberg illinois.edu> writes: >> >> > >> > Folks: >> > I'm using a Windows install of GDAL

Re: [gdal-dev] OGR slow with network files on Windows

2013-06-17 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
This is an old(ish) thread but I wanted to follow-up since I've been dealing with SMB2 and GIS stuff recently and came across this in my searches. Some of this is specific to reading files from a Samba server (linux, typically), but modern Windows file servers have a similar problem. A couple of

[gdal-dev] Using/citing GDAL documentation

2013-10-18 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
GDALers: I'm working with a colleague on a new set of R wrappers for GDAL, and we are at the point where we are starting to document the functions. Our R interface is designed to be VERY close to the GDAL command line utilities (we use the same parameter names, for instance), so I was wondering if

Re: [gdal-dev] Using/citing GDAL documentation

2013-11-16 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
I'm simply filling in some of the gaps in rgdal's capabilities. --j On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Nick Ves wrote: > sounds really cool. > > One question though: Whats the difference between gdalUtils and rgdal? > > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 4:13 AM, Jonathan Greenberg >

[gdal-dev] (no subject)

2014-01-23 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
GDALers: I've not had this error before when compiling GDAL for Linux boxes, but I'm getting some sqlite error. This is from: ./configure --prefix=/pathto/wherever --with=python make *** ... chmod a+x gdal-config /bin/sh /projects/oa/shared/jgrn/code/src/gdal-1.10.1/libtool --mode=link g++

[gdal-dev] "Syncing" two rasters together...

2014-03-27 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
GDALers: What is the most efficient way, given a "reference raster", and an arbitrary raster (we'll call it "unsynced") synced together to allow them to be stacked: the output of this should be the unsynced raster with the same number of rows, columns, pixel size, upper left coordinates, and proje

Re: [gdal-dev] "Syncing" two rasters together...

2014-03-27 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
ies distribution models). This is a common enough task that it would be nice to see this as a feature in e.g. gdalwarp, if it isn't already. --j On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Tim Keitt wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Jonathan Greenberg > wrote: >> >

[gdal-dev] gdalwarp bug using -r mode

2014-04-08 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Folks: I'm running a gdalwarp on a sinusoidal MODIS class image to longlat, using a modal resample (and cropping the output). The warp is clipping off a circular region of North America and Australia. I am using multithreaded mode, but I confirmed this error also occurs in sequential mode. The

[gdal-dev] Problems with HDF4

2014-10-14 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Gdallers: I'm having some issues with a source-built GDAL's support of HDF4 on a Linux box. I've repeated this with both GDAL 1.10.1 and 1.11.1. The HDF is a landsat HDF: @server> gdalinfo "/pathro/lndsr.LT51950531990333ESA00.hdf" ERROR 4: Failed to open HDF4 file "/pathto/lndsr.LT5195053199033

Re: [gdal-dev] Problems with HDF4

2014-10-15 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
stall), so the two conflict with one another. I'll install two versions moving forward, unless someone has a better solution! Reference: http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF-FAQ.html#11share --j On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Jonathan Greenberg wrote: > Gdallers: > > I'm having some is

[gdal-dev] Proper algorithms for computing slopes for global/polar DEMs?

2015-02-20 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
GDALers: We're trying to figure out a good algorithm for computing topographic slope for Alaska, which is both huge and near the pole. Our DEM is currently in geographic coordinates, but we need slope over a fixed distance (change in elevation vs. horizontal meters). The issue is, there is no pr

[gdal-dev] Mosaicking question...

2015-09-05 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
GDALers: Quick question: if I'm using the gdalbuildvrt -> gdal_translate trick to mosaic images, where I have "holes" (missing tiles), how do I set the value of the regions where there is no image? Is this done in gdalbuildvrt or gdal_translate? --j __

[gdal-dev] gdalbuildvrt with multiple nodata

2015-09-23 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Folks: I've got a weird one -- I'm trying to perform a mosaic of GeoTIFF tiles that are somewhat overlapping. Here's the odd issue -- I need the mosaic to basically set all values of 0 AND "NODATA" to be the srcnodata. How do I do this? Will gdalbuildvrt automatically use "true" NODATA values t

[gdal-dev] "Nested" vrts?

2015-09-24 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Folks: Is it possible to create a vrt comprised of other vrts? For a mosaicking problem, say I want to first trim the margins of the individual tiles by a certain number of pixels -- I can, of course, gdal_translate this but this adds a bunch of new files/processing time -- can I use gdalbuildvrt

[gdal-dev] gdalUtils (GDAL/OGR for R) now on CRAN

2015-10-09 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Folks: I wanted to let you know I've pushed a major release of my gdalUtils package to CRAN in the last week. This wraps all non-python GDAL/OGR utilities as of GDAL 2.0.1 for use in R, and provides some value-added functions as well. install.packages("gdalUtils") should work for all OSs, or if

Re: [gdal-dev] gdalUtils (GDAL/OGR for R) now on CRAN

2015-10-11 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Will the "old way" be removed from future updates? Or will the binary utilities be retained? --j On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 1:27 PM Even Rouault wrote: > Le vendredi 09 octobre 2015 19:43:28, Jonathan Greenberg a écrit : > > Folks: > > > > I wanted to let you know

[gdal-dev] Requesting new driver?

2015-12-01 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
GDAL Developers: How do I go about requesting a new driver? R's "raster" format is a pretty straightforward flat binary/header format (very similar to ENVI's). The specifications are laid out in: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/raster/vignettes/rasterfile.pdf I think this would be a ni

Re: [gdal-dev] Requesting new driver?

2015-12-01 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
sizes, etc. J On Tue, Dec 1, 2015, 1:40 PM Even Rouault wrote: > Le mardi 01 décembre 2015 20:34:10, Jonathan Greenberg a écrit : > > GDAL Developers: > > > > How do I go about requesting a new driver? R's "raster" format is a > pretty > > straight

[gdal-dev] gdalbuildvrt for multiband files?

2016-06-16 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Folks: Is there any trick to "stacking" multiple *multiband* files via gdalbuildvrt for further use with e.g. gdal_translate? Basically, this restriction using "separate": "In that case, only the first band of each dataset will be placed into a new band." Is causing problems -- I want to have A

[gdal-dev] Mosaic question...

2017-02-06 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
GDALers: I love the gdalbuildvrt -> gdal_translate trick for large mosaicks, but I have a somewhat more complicated problem I was hoping I could get some help on. Given a large set of overlapping images, I want to mosaic using the following "rules": 1) all overlapping pixels should be averaged to

[gdal-dev] Hacking the new Landsat pixel_qa help...

2017-05-04 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Folks: USGS, in their infinite wisdom, decided to embed what is effectively a 1-bit, 16-band byte-interleaved-by-pixel image into a 16-bit, single-band geotiff for the Landsat quality mask. I could write some crazy translation program that "reverse engineers" the data, but I was wondering if ther

[gdal-dev] Using GDAL to tile an image *with* overlapping?

2011-08-23 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
GDALers: I really like gdal.retile.py, but I'm now facing an issue where I want to tile a file but have *overlap* between each tile. Is there a way to do this using existing GDAL utilities? I want the outputs to be geotiffs, and (ideally, but not required) I'd like a shapefile generated of the r

Re: [gdal-dev] Using GDAL to tile an image *with* overlapping?

2011-08-24 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
think you will have to modify the gdal_retile.py script[1] yourselves. > Can you explain what you mean by the shapefile of the results? > > [1]: > http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/browser/trunk/gdal/swig/python/scripts/gdal_retile.py > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:17 AM, Jonathan Greenbe

[gdal-dev] gdal2tiles.py zoom levels -- how to display "raw" pixels?

2011-09-08 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
GDALers: I'm trying to get gdal2tiles to give me a zoom level that displays the raw, full resolution, un-resampled pixels at a certain zoom level. What zoom (-z) setting should I use? I am very confused what, precisely, the zoom levels refer to in terms of pixels/unit area. My input data is a 50

[gdal-dev] GIS Lecturer position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2011-09-16 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
[Colleagues: Please forward this to any interested parties. Thanks!] The Department of Geography in the School of Earth, Society and Environment at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is looking for a Lecturer to fill a key teaching position in our Geographic Information Science curricu

[gdal-dev] NITF to ENVI format failure

2012-04-12 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
GDALers: I've got some DigitalGlobe Worldview-2 files in NITF format, but I'm not able to convert it from NITF to ENVI: > gdal_translate -of ENVI 11MAY05170702-M1BS-052548267010_01_P001.NTF > 11MAY05170702-M1BS-052548267010_01_P001.envi [some time passes] Input file size is 9216, 6144 0ERROR 4:

Re: [gdal-dev] NITF to ENVI format failure

2012-04-12 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
ALClose(11MAY05170702-P1BS-052548267010_01_P001.NTF, this=0x669450) --j On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Jonathan Greenberg > wrote: >> GDALers: >> >> I've got some DigitalGlobe Worldview-2 files in NITF form

[gdal-dev] Which formats are just flat binary files plus a header?

2012-05-03 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Gdalers: I'm working on some parallel processing routines via rgdal and R, but thought this question was better answered here. I'm trying to find out which raster formats are simply a flat binary file an a header. ENVI is the one that springs to mind. We're trying to work up which files can be

Re: [gdal-dev] Which formats are just flat binary files plus a header?

2012-05-04 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Thanks! This was really helpful! Cheers! --j On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote: > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Jonathan Greenberg > wrote: > > Gdalers: > > > > I'm working on some parallel processing routines via rgdal and R, but > &g

[gdal-dev] Matching two datasets...

2012-07-12 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
GDALers: Hope this isn't too much of a noobish question. Given two images, A and B, I want to have B match A in terms of projection, extent, and resolution such that A and B will stack perfectly. The tricky part here, and one I'm not sure how to solve is that while they are both global datasets

Re: [gdal-dev] reading large image files

2008-07-20 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
I want to back up Even's statement about trying to read a file piece-by-piece. About 99% of raster processes are better handled with "tiled" processing -- a nice balance between i/o, memory and sanity would be to read the image one line at a time, perform your processing on that line, write th

[gdal-dev] Re: [GRASS-user] Using GIMPs Fuzzy Select tool on orthophotos (geotiff)

2008-07-31 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Nikos: Have you checked out any of the new minirasterstrip features in starspan yet? It takes vector data (any format that OGR supports), extracts a window (user defined size) around the vector out of a set of rasters (anything that GDAL supports), compiles it into a single image, and ref

[gdal-dev] Using RGDAL to "copy" header information...

2008-11-05 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
R-geographers... I'm trying to solve a problem to implement a line-by-line tiled processing using RGDAL (read 1 line of an image, process the one line, write one line of the image to a binary file). Everything except for the final step I'm able to do using a combination of RGDAL and r-base c

[gdal-dev] Open source GIS cataloging software?

2009-02-11 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Sorry for the cross-posting. I was wondering if anyone has a unix (preferably) or windows program that can spider a directory, recursively searching for raster and vector data, and create bounding box polygons for each raster/vector it finds, with attributes indicating the path-to-file. -- J

[gdal-dev] gdalbuildvrt, gdal_translate, and MODIS HDF files

2011-04-30 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
GDALers: I have recently come across the mosaicking magic that is 1) build a vrt usin gdalbuildvrt and then 2) gdal_translate the vrt to whatever format I want -- I'm noticing this is a crazy-fast way to do mosaicking compared to some other techniques. My current issue is that I have a set of MOD

Re: [gdal-dev] gdalbuildvrt, gdal_translate, and MODIS HDF files

2011-04-30 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Even: Thanks: how would I "wildcard" this into a gdalbuildvrt? The files all follow the pattern MCD15A2.A2002185.h14v10.005* --j On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Even Rouault wrote: > Le samedi 30 avril 2011 17:34:28, Jonathan Greenberg a écrit : > > GDALers: > >

[gdal-dev] Segmentation fault with debian install of gdal on MODIS hdf4 files

2011-05-09 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Folks: I did a Debian install of both the "unstable" and the "experimental" versions of GDAL, and when running gdal_translate on a MODIS HDF4 file I'm getting a segmentation fault. gdalinfo works fine tho. Thoughts? $ gdal_translate -ot Float32 -of ENVI HDF4_EOS:EOS_GRID:MCD15A2.A2002185.h35v10

Re: [gdal-dev] Segmentation fault with debian install of gdal on MODIS hdf4 files

2011-05-10 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
:"MCD15A2. > A2002185.h12v05.005.2007172035551.hdf":MOD_Grid_MOD15A2:LaiStdDev_1km' > test2.tif > Input file size is 1200, 1200 > 0...10...20...30...40...50...60...70...80...90...100 - done. > > --Nikos Hatzopoulos > > > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Jonathan

[gdal-dev] Matching two rasters

2011-05-13 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
GDALers: Say I have two rasters, A and B with different projections, extents, and resolution. I want to make B match A, such that the projection, resolution, and extent (filling in with some arbitrary value where there is no data) all match. Is there a quick way to do this using command line gda

[gdal-dev] Converting from 16 bit to 8 bit images (best practices?)

2011-06-08 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Folks: I am using a piece of software which is relying on an older version of GDAL that doesn't have the "fix" to deal with > 8 bit geotiffs (it is trying to make a jpeg overlay but can't from a 16 bit image. I think this is the issue: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/TIFF12BitJPEG), but when I do

Re: [gdal-dev] Converting from 16 bit to 8 bit images (best practices?)

2011-06-08 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
separately)? Alternatively, how would I get rgb2pct.py working on the above image correctly? Thanks! --j On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Nikolaos Hatzopoulos wrote: > why you don't try rgb2pct http://www.gdal.org/rgb2pct.html? > > --Nikos Hatzopoulos > > On Wed, Jun

Re: [gdal-dev] Converting from 16 bit to 8 bit images (best practices?)

2011-06-09 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
t; > gdal_translate -of gtiff output.vrt output.tif > > > > for more complicated scaling you may need to hand write a vrt > > http://www.gdal.org/gdal_vrttut.html > > Brian > > On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 19:31 -0700, Jonathan Greenberg wrote: > > Nikos and GDALers: