[Gdal-dev] RE: Strange NoData value from a MrSID image (Peng Gao)

[Michael P. Gerlek]

Frank, Peng:

In the MrSID SDK, we are not band-specific -- that is, a pixel is considered nodata iff all bands match the given values.

-mpg


-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:fwarmerdam at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 10:57 AM
To: Peng Gao
Cc: Michael P. Gerlek; gdal-dev at xserve.flids.com
Subject: Re: [Gdal-dev] RE: Strange NoData value from a MrSID image
(Peng Gao)


On 6/24/05, Peng Gao <pgao at esri.com> wrote:
> I have a question about the interpretation of MrSID NoData value. 
> Is a pixel considered NoData only if all three values match their 
> corresponding band NoData value, or Is a pixel considered NoData 
> if any band value matches band NoData value? For example, given 
> NoData values (0, 0, 0), Are only those pixels with value (0, 0, 0) 
> considered NoData, or (0, x, x), (0, 0, x), and etc considered 
> as NoData pixels as well? 

Peng,

In the GDAL data model, nodata is band specific.  So if band one
has a nodata value of 0, then that band is considered to be nodata
if the pixel value is zero.  A pixel might well be no data in some bands,
and not in others ... at least in theory.

I'm not sure if this is the normal interpretation in MrSID though. 

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