Thank you Morgan. This sounds promising. I will definitely try gdalwarp and the cblend switch! I will report back about the result.

Thanks a lot for the hint!

Andreas


On 11.12.2014 19:08, morgan-hesperus wrote:
When I need a blended mosaic of overlapping images, I've had good results
using gdalwarp's -cblend switch, as follows.

1. Open the overlapping images in QGIS.
2. Create a new polygon layer. This is so you can create a masking polygon
for one of the images.
3. Draw a masking polygon whose edge cuts through the overlap area where
you want blending. (The rest of the polygon can be outside the image.)
Save.
4. Go Raster>Extraction>Clipper.
5. Choose Mask layer and select your polygon.
6. If your image has only three bands, check Create alpha band. Don't
check this if your image already has 4 bands.
7. Specify an output file. This cannot already exist.
8. Edit the command line at the bottom to replace the "-clip-to-cutline"
switch with "-cblend 40". The 40 is just a suggestion. It means the new
image will fade to completely transparent across the 40 pixels around the
polygon edge.
9. Hit OK. The image produced will have an alpha channel and fade from
fully opaque to fully transparent along the clipping polygon edge.

- Morgan


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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 12:21:14 -0600
From: Michael Treglia <[email protected]>
To: Andreas Neumann <[email protected]>,
        "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Mosaicking aerial images
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Hi Andreas,

I'm Bringing this back to the list, as others here probably have some
better thoughts than I do.  Googling around, I found this tool which
might
be useful (?), though I can't tell how it handles overlaps [haven't even
downloaded it...]: https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Correlator

Not sure about enblend (can't access the site right now)

Depending on how different the images are, you could just try mosaicing
and
see what it looks like (gdal_merge takes the values of last image added
for
overlaps).  If there's a way to standardize color values based on
brightness, or by RGB bands, that might help, either before or after
mosaicing. (might depend on if you're dealing with multi-band image, or
single band? - it would be fairly easy on multi-band like Landsat)

Hope that helps,
mike

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