[Gdal-dev] ERMapper .ers ?

TC Haddad tchaddad at gmail.com
Tue Jun 6 14:18:26 EDT 2006


I'm curious about being able to convert a large bunch of files to ER
Mapper .ers format. From what I've been told, .ers is basically a .bil
format raster with a custom header. Not sure how accurate this
description is, but I'm curious if gdal can create it...

we're looking at a project where we will have to convert a few large
series of rasters into .ers format. The source files would include
TIFFs, TIFFs w/ world files, ArcInfo grids, and/or DEMs. I was hoping
gdal might be a potential aid in this big task.

can someone enlighten me as to gdal's capabilities regarding .ers ?

thanks

Tanya

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Warmerdam" <warmerdam at pobox.com>
To: <gdal-dev at remotesensing.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Gdal-dev] ERMapper .ers ?


> Ben Discoe wrote:
> > I've been asked about the ERMapper .ers format... could GDAL read/write
it?
> > It seems to be an open format, in that ERMapper generally encourages
people
> > to use their format.  It is a raster format, i think?
>
> Ben,
>
>  From a few samples I have seen I gather the .ers file is basically an
ascii
> header describing an external raster file which can be in any number of
formats.
> I presume there is some raw raster format for files generated within
ERMapper.
> I think that in some cases the .ers file is also an algorithm description
of
> how to generate a raster from other files.
>
> However, I'm not really very sure of any of this.
>
> If folks want to scare up some examples datasets (not too huge I hope) I
> could look at implementing some degree of support.
>
> Best regards,
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