[gdal-dev] new data type

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at p...
Thu Aug 29 11:24:48 EDT 2002


April Shimitz wrote:

>Currently LAS doesn't support any complex signed byte data, but support
>for such will undoubtedly be needed as new satellites are lauched and
>new data formats are created, or if we are asked to support the existing
>SAR complex data sets. We could just promote the data to complex 16bit
>integer at the driver level, as you suggested, but then you'd end up
>doubling the size of a file that's usually already very large (very high
>resolution data).
>
>One reason that drove us to use GDAL for our I/O library was the
>extensibility of the data types. If it's just a matter of the time it
>would take you to implement the changes, would you be against us making
>the changes to the GDAL core to support it when the need arises?
> 
>
April,

OK, I am agreeable to adding the signed complex byte type when it 
becomes necessary. 

Best regards,

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