R: [Gdal-dev] Support for creating ENVI .hdr labeled files

[Vincent Schut]

On Wednesday 26 February 2003 15:35, Andrey Kiselev wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:31:02PM +0100, Vincent Schut wrote:
> > file as belonging to image.bin. This also works for image.bla, but not
> > for 'image.whatever.yoyo'. So it appears that envi simply tests 2 cases:
> > filename+suffix+.hdr, and filename+.hdr.
>
> Note, that ENVI driver recognizes both these cases as well.
>
> > However, the default is what Amici is trying to tell us: image.bin and
> > image.bin.hdr (or without the '.bin').
>
> Ok, now I'm realize. Create <filename>.<ext> and <filename>.<ext>.hdr
> instead of <filename>.img and <filename>.hdr. But does this really
> important? :-)

Well, to join the discussion really good now :-), it matters not really of 
course, from the envi point of view. Envi will open your files, one way or 
the other.
It becomes a different thing if you have written your own idl programs (envi 
is written in idl) that automatically process some envi files and that do not 
use the native envi open functions to open these files + headers, but have 
their own opening functions that are a bit more specific.
I don't, I usually write these programs in C (+gdal) once I tested the 
algorithm in idl/envi :-). But maybe others have...? Btw, I thought the .img 
suffix was Erdas native/default, not ENVI's ? If you ask me, I think it might 
be good to keep as close as possible to the native driver's format, in envi's 
case: just add the .hdr suffix. But it is not a *real* problem, I directly 
admit.

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Vincent Schut (schut at sarvision.com)
Sarvision B.V.
Wageningen, The Netherlands
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