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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The names of the raster bands seem to be stored into GeoTIFF with GDAL tag 42112<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Tag 42112: <GDALMetadata><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><Item name="DESCRIPTION" sample="0" role="description">SomeBandName 001</Item><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><Item name="DESCRIPTION" sample="1" role="description">SomeBandName 002</Item><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The description can be set with Python by doing something like<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">RasterBand.SetDescription(BandName)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I guess that those metadata items can be added also with gdal_edit but I can’t imagine what is the right syntax. A simple test with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">gdal_edit -mo "DESCRIPTION=test" test.tif
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">adds metadata into higher level<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Metadata:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> AREA_OR_POINT=Area<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> DESCRIPTION=test<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">So how would the gdal_edit command look like on Windows, if the aim is to add a metadata item<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><Item name="DESCRIPTION" sample="0" role="description">SomeBandName 001</Item><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">so that after this gdalinfo would report<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Band 1 Block=20x20 Type=UInt16, ColorInterp=Gray<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> Description = SomeBandName 001<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-Jukka Rahkonen-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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