[gdal-dev] updates on masking raster data

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Friday 02 May 2008, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> > anyone know if there has been any work related to this ticket:
> >
> > http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1599
> >
> > I was hoping to mask out a large section of raster data while warping, or
> > possibly in a second-pass with gdal_translate or the like.
>
> Dylan,
>
> gdal_rasterize can mask off areas of a raster inside or outside of a
> polygon. Other than that, nothing has been done to the best of my
> knowledge.
>
> Best regards.

Thanks Frank. Short of some fancy python-GDAL goodness, I came up with some 
bash + GRASS scripting to solve the problem:

http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/drupal/node/613

Dylan

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