[Gdal-dev] gdal_translate with onearth png

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 9/6/05, wsacul <wsacul at gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess I need to read up on the geotiff format- I'm assuming that a
> satellite visual spectrum image turned into a geotiff and elevation
> data turned into a geotiff were quite different and would require
> different command line options in gdal_translate- perhaps they are not
> and I just need to make sure I use them correctly downstream.  I'm
> using osgdem, so for that instance I would specify the geotiff with -d
> rather than -t.

Lucasw, 

The formats aren't all that different.  Gdal_translate will know
to generate a 16bit GeoTIFF because the input PNG is 16bit. 

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