[gdal-dev] Reading/Interpreting multi band Tiffs

[Frank Warmerdam]

Tom Kazimiers wrote:
>> There is also a RasterIO() method on the Dataset which allows
>> fetching all the bands in one request.  In C++ this is:
>>
>> http://www.gdal.org/classGDALDataset.html#e077c53268d2272eebed10b891a05743

> thank you very much - this was what I was looking for. Unfortunately I
> need to write Data in the form Band3, Band2, Band1, Band3, Band2, Band1,
> ... (BGR)
> Like you have said, the reading is sequential and it was not very hard
> to get it working with a result of the form Band1, Band2, Ban3, Band1,
> Band2, Band3, ... (RGB)
> Is there a way to change the order of the bands so that I can use this
> function (alternatively I could write a fast switch function, sure - but
> it would be nicer to have it all in one function)? With three seperate
> calls to the per-raster-band-RasterIO I can controle everything pretty
> good, but it seems that the per-dataset-RasterIO is faster (maybe
> illusion :P).

Tom,

To read or write from a BGR buffer you can either passing the band
list reversed (ie. panBandMap is {3,2,1}) or fudze with the
pixelspace, linespace and bandspace values to simulate the reverse.

Sometimes dataset level io will be faster but often it is internally
implemented by calling band level io.

Best regards,
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