[gdal-dev] Problem in importing to Google Earth a nitf image converted from a tif image by gdal_translate

[Roger André]

See http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/ug_imageoverlays.html#requirements,
I don't believe the "NITF (rw+): National Imagery Transmission Format" is
supported by Google Earth.

Roger
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On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:27 PM, mohwawang <mohwawang at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm sorry that this is the third time I tried to send this message out
> because I myself didn't get the first two through gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.orgso I thought others might not get it either.
>
> I used gdal_translate to convert a tif image to a nitf image as:
> >gdal_translate -of nitf in.tif out.ntf -co ICORDS=G
> Input file size is 561, 420
> 0...10...20...30...40...50...60...70...80...90...100 - done.
>
> I can display both in.tif and out.ntf with OpenEV. So both in.tif and
> out.ntf were ok to OpenEV.
>
> With a simple Google Earth kml file(specifying the LanLonBox)(printed
> below) I could import the in.tif to Google Earth viewer to the right
> geo-location. So in.tif was ok to GE.
>
> However, after replacing the image file name from in.tif to out.ntf in the
> same kml file (printed below) I could not import the out.ntf to Google Earth
> viewer (shown as a big red cross in a big red rectangle at the geo-location
> in the GE viewer). So out.ntf was not ok to GE. Any ideal about what might
> cause the problem? Was the use of gdal_translate wrong or missing some
> options? I tried not to use -co ICRODS=G but I got the same problem. Thank
> you.
>
> printed kml for in.tif:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2"
> xmlns:gx="http://www.google.com/kml/ext/2.2"
> xmlns:kml="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2"
> xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
> <GroundOverlay>
>  <description>
> *** Meta-Data ***
>    Lat = 42.808863
>  </description>
>    <name>in.tif</name>
>    <Icon>
>       <href>in.tif</href>
>       <viewBoundScale>0.75</viewBoundScale>
>    </Icon>
>      <LatLonBox>
>         <north>42.8093748999134</north>
>         <south>42.8082925732318</south>
>         <east>-70.887525562763</east>
>         <west>-70.8894939447889</west>
>         <rotation>-95.909027</rotation>
>      </LatLonBox>
> </GroundOverlay>
> </kml>
>
> printed kml for out.ntf: same as in.tif except:
>
>    <name>out.ntf</name>
>    <Icon>
>       <href>out.ntf</href>
>       <viewBoundScale>0.75</viewBoundScale>
>    </Icon>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Mo Wang
>
>
>
>
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