[Gdal-dev] Display help

[Frank Warmerdam]

Christiaan Janssen wrote:
> Could anyone give me some suggestions on what would be the appropriate 
> method for displaying raster data with GDAL. I'm currently using openGL 
> which is all fine but I have an issue dealing with imagery thats over 8 
> bit. Is there a way to have GDAL scale the sample values or is this 
> something I would have to do manually. Thanks

Christiaan,

Generally speaking I'd suggest you rescale the data as a post processing
step after reading it with GDALRasterIO().  There are GDAL calls to get
min/max and stats information that may be helpful to you in deciding on
a scaling strategy.

Best regards,
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