[kepler-dev] GIS/GDAL question

Kevin Ruland kruland at ku.edu
Wed Nov 30 16:29:22 PST 2005


Dan,

I'll look into this in the morning.

gdal_translate lets you specify input and output formats including
representation.

Kevin

Dan Higgins wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>    Any GIS/GDAL experts out there?
>
>    As part of the ENM/GARP workflows, we need to read and re-project 
>some *.bil raster files. We are using some GDAL code in actors to do 
>this. The problem is that one of the *.bil input files is specified with 
>NBITS=32 in the *.hdr file. GDAL apparently assumes that NBITS=32 
>corresponds to 32-bit floating point data, but some other applications 
>assume it is 32 bit INT data!
>
>    The data is apparently 32 bit INTs. Is *.bil data always INT data? 
>(It allows 8 and 16 bit data which are integers; I see no way of 
>specifying what 32 bit data represents.) Is there any way in GDAL (eg 
>GDALWARP) to set the assumed input datatype? (i.e. tell GDAL to assume 
>INT rather than FLOAT?)
>
>Dan
>
>  
>



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