[Gdal-dev] gdal_translate question

[Frank Warmerdam]

Christopher Condit wrote:
> I'm trying to translate from an EHdr dataset to a GeoTIFF, but want to
> incorporate the correct min/max values from the EHdr statistics file.
> I'm currently using: gdal_translate -ot Int32 -scale 0 65535 -415 5778
> input.DEM output.tiff
> Is there any way to do this automatically since the statistics will vary
> from DEM to DEM?

Chris,

If you omit the min/max values to the -scale option, gdal_translate will
pick min/max values itself.  I *think* it uses the metadata min/max.

eg.

gdal_translate -ot Int32 -scale 0 65535 input.DEM output.tiff

Best regards,
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