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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I&#8217;m working with gdalwarp to re-project some fairly
large imagery sources that have multiple overviews per band (mostly MrSID
data).&nbsp; Is there any way to force gdalwarp to use a specified overview
layer for its processing, or a way to have it &#8216;auto-calculate&#8217; the
most efficient level?&nbsp; I have looked through the code in
gdalwarp.cpp/gdalwarpoperation.cpp and it doesn&#8217;t seem to take overviews
into account.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Either way, this would be incredibly more efficient when warping
extremely images down to lower resolutions &#8211; you don&#8217;t really need
to read the &#8216;raw&#8217; overview in such cases, just the one that has a comparable
lat/lon resolution.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:black'>Thanks,<br>
<br>
Alex Bowen<br>
<br>
<a href="mailto:bowen@enews.nrl.navy.mil"
title="blocked::mailto:bowen@enews.nrl.navy.mil">bowen@enews.nrl.navy.mil</a><br>
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