[gdal-dev] gdalinfo on an NITF file I get a warning message of "Warning 1: Image with 11 bits per sample will not be interpreted properly."

[John Mitchell]

Frank,

How would I do the below from within FWTools2.0.0?

Thanks,

John

On Dec 5, 2007 9:59 AM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:

> John Mitchell wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When running gdalinfo on an NITF file I get a warning message of
> > "Warning 1: Image with 11 bits per sample will not be interpreted
> > properly." and the attached gdalinfo file.
> >
> > What does this warning message mean as far as accurately processing this
> > file (along with similar NITF files) with gdal tools like gdalwarp,
> > gdal_translate, gdaltindex, gdalinfo and then displaying this data
> > within UMN MapServer?
>
> John,
>
> I suspect the image data will just be badly corrupted.  If you are
> building
> GDAL from source, you can go into gdal/frmts/nitf and build the nitfdump
> utility.  The output of it on your file might be helpful in diagnosing
> the situation.
>
> Unix:
>   make nitfdump
>
> Windows:
>   nmake /f makefile.vc nitfdump.exe
>
> Best regards,
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>


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John J. Mitchell
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