[Qgis-user] NITF Imagery

Andrea Peri aperi2007 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 20 07:47:59 PST 2014


Can you open a shell and do a

gdalinfo image.ntf

to see what it report

Thx,

Andrea.



2014/1/20 James Wood <jwood911 at gmail.com>

> Hello List,
>
> I have several ~800MB .ntf images that I need to load into a QGIS Desktop
> project. I have SpatiaLite vector layers already loaded, and they, along
> with the project CRS, are in WGS84 (EPSG: 4326). When I load the NITF
> images, they do not appear to load in coordinate space (cursor coordinates
> are not in lat,long and they do not overlay the vector) and the images are
> inverted (up-side down). Loading in several together, they draw on top of
> one another. Initially this suggested that the image coordinates were
> stored in the header in rotated format without coordinate reference.
>
> When I load these same images into ArcMap, they draw correctly, right-side
> up and overlaying the same SpatiaLite vector in coordinate space. Looking
> at the image properties, the spatial reference is WGS84 (GCS_WGS_1984) and
> the extents (given in decimal degrees) show that the image is not rotated.
> Looking at the metadata for the images in ArcCatalog confirms this.
>
> The only thing I have been able to find so far concerning NITF is this:
>
> http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/gdal-dev-Can-t-read-NITF-image-td5064590.html
> (a little over my head, but this seems a different problem)
>
> Could I be missing a plug-in? When I go to add a raster layer, my
> drop-down of raster types includes NITF imagery. Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
> Windows 7 x64 2.4GHz 8GB
> QGIS Desktop 2.0.1
> ArcGIS Desktop 10.2.1
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
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