[gdal-dev] gdal_translate shifted values

Scott public at postholer.com
Wed Jan 31 16:02:25 PST 2024


I'd check both files *before* all the processing. Something like:

gdallocationinfo -l_srs EPSG:4326 gribFile -110 40

gdallocationinfo -l_srs EPSG:4326 tiffFile -110 40

That will tell narrow it down.



On 1/31/24 15:53, Furuya, Takahiro via gdal-dev wrote:
> Hi gdal-dev, I am Takahiro, a student who is using gdal_translate.
> I have an issue with gdal_translate and would like to ask a question.
> I used gdal_translate to transform a NCEP GRIB file (downloadable from 
> https://data.eol.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/codiac/fgr_form/id=21.093 
> <https://data.eol.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/codiac/fgr_form/id=21.093>, or 
> attached to this email) to GeoTiff, and compare those 2 data formats. 
> The command I used is
>  >gdal_translate -of GTiff st4_pr.2017092016.01h st4_pr.2017092016.01h.tif
> 
> (The GRIB file I used was st4_pr.2017092016.01h, which can be downloaded 
> from the above link by specifying “Begin Date/Time” to 
> “20170920”/“15:00:00”  and “End Date/Time” to “20170920”/“15:59:59”.)
> 
> Then I read the 2 data files in R and checked if the original value at a 
> certain grid cell in the GRIB file remained at the same grid cell in the 
> GeoTiff file, but the value was shifted by 6 rows (the value I checked 
> was 9.75 [mm/hour] that was stored in index [100,86] in the original 
> GRIB file, but it was shifted to [106,86] in the GeoTiff file).
> 
> You can see the Python script used for reading the original GRIB file 
> here: https://bpa.st/ZNOSI <https://bpa.st/ZNOSI>
> The R script used for checking the tif-translated data: 
> https://bpa.st/WZLSY <https://bpa.st/WZLSY>
> 
> The version of gdal_translate I used is 3.0.2.
> Is this a known issue of gdal_translate? Or is this issue not supposed 
> to happen (is this the mistake of my side?)?
> 
> Best regards,
> Takahiro
> 
> 
> 
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