Hi David: If gdal can read your rasters (gdalinfo will work for a quick and easy test), mapserver will too.
Alex On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:46 PM, David Hildebrand <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Jukka. The second part of my question relates to floating point > images. I don't think that MapServer can handle 3-band floating point > images because I can't seem to find anything in the documentation and I > have tried a couple of things that don't work. I suppose the best thing > would be to convert them to 3-band, 8-bit images. > > > =========================== > David V. Hildebrand > Agriculture Financial Services Corporation > (403) 782-8239 > > www.afsc.ca <http://www.afsc.ca> > This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to which it > is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal and/or privileged > information. Please contact Agriculture Financial Services Corporation > immediately if you are not the intended recipient of this communication, > and do not copy, distribute, or take action relying on it. Any > communication received in error, or subsequent reply, should be deleted > or destroyed. Please consider the environment before printing this > email. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rahkonen Jukka [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 10:07 AM > To: David Hildebrand > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] GDAL input formats > > Hi, > > Have you already read the ENVI part of the following document? > http://gdal.org/frmt_various.html#ENVI > > -Jukka Rahkonen- > > > David Hildebrand wrote: > >> Frank: > >> As you are probably aware, ENVI image files are associated with a > header > file which has a "hdr" extension. The extension of the actual image > file can be anything but the root name of the image file and header file > must be the same. If I specify the HDR file on the DATA line of my map > file there may be more than one file in the same workspace which are > candidate image files. If I specify the name of the image file, which > can have any or no extension, I don't see how the system can figure out > the format. Is there a particular extension which is assumed by GDAL > for the image file? > >> Thanks. > > > =========================== > David V. Hildebrand > Agriculture Financial Services Corporation > (403) 782-8239 > > www.afsc.ca <http://www.afsc.ca> > This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to which it > is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal and/or privileged > information. Please contact Agriculture Financial Services Corporation > immediately if you are not the intended recipient of this communication, > and do not copy, distribute, or take action relying on it. Any > communication received in error, or subsequent reply, should be deleted > or destroyed. Please consider the environment before printing this > email. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frank > Warmerdam > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 5:33 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] GDAL input formats > > On 11-01-04 03:14 PM, David Hildebrand wrote: >> I'm wondering how to specify a particular GDAL format. I have some >> 3-band floating point images in ENVI format and I would like to retain >> that format because I have GDAL support. Secondly, would it be better >> to convert them to GeoTiff files? Would it also be better to scale > them >> to, say 16-bit signed integer files? > > David, > > I searched back a bit in the archive, but I couldn't find any leadup > discussion to the above. It seems to lack context. > > So, you have 3band floating point images in ENVI format and you would > like to retain that format. Is there something holding you back? > > You said you don't know "hjow to specify a particular GDAL format". Do > you mean when you are generating output via GDAL such as with WCS? Or > do you mean how you tell MapServer what format an input file is in? > You don't have to tell MapServer (or GDAL) what format a file is in. > It figures it out - assuming it is a supported format. > > Does that help? > > Best regards, > -- > ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------- > ------ > I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, > [email protected] > light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam > and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
