[Gdal-dev] How does one remove Overviews?

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 9/30/05, Mike Logan <mlogan at mail.arc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> This has come up a couple times for me..
> I generated overviews in my files for OSG's  osgdem software and
>  didn't like the results due to the black border bleeding into the
>  final imagery.
>
> Is there a program to remove the overviews and just leave the
>  original data (in a geotiff)?

Mike,

There is no mechanism available to remove overviews from an image.
However, you can just "gdal_translate" the file to a new file and the
new file should be similar to the original but not have the overviews.

Best regards,
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