[gdal-dev] Process many DEM's into 1

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Oliver Eichler <oliver.eichler at gmx.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 8. July 2008 17:42:07 Courtney Schitka wrote:
>> Hi List,
>>
>> You guys have been great. Today my problem is I've downloaded 400 dem's
>> from an FTP server I was wondering if there was anyway using FWTools or
>> what have you, to turn many dem's into 1 dem. The files are seperate and
>> together cover one contiguous area. Rather then opening every one I would
>> like to turn them into 1 file so all i have to do is open 1 of them.
>>
>
> I would try to do:
>
> gdalwarp <file1> <file2> ... <outputfile>

You can also use wildcards like "file*.tif". See

http://gfoss.blogspot.com/2008/06/gdal-raster-data-tips-and-tricks.html
-> Merging many small adjacent DEMs into one big map (B)

Markus