[gdal-dev] nitf xbands supported?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Sarah Mulholland wrote:
> In looking at the NITF 2.1 spec, I notice that the number of bands 
> (NBANDS) in an image is by default represented by an ascii charactacter 
> ‘0’ to ‘9’.  There’s an XBANDS field that you can use for images with 
> more bands when there are multispectral bands in excess of 9. 
> 
>  
> 
> I notice that when I call “driver.Create” with more than 9 bands, python 
> seg faults when I call GetRasterBand for the first band.  Would I be 
> correct in assuming that gdal doesn’t support the XBANDS feature in the 
> NITF?

Sarah,

That would appear to be the case.  I encourage you to file a ticket
on the issue.

Best regards,
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