[gdal-dev] Expanding a palette image to 3 bands

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Henneke, Amanda
M<amanda.m.henneke at boeing.com> wrote:
> Hello all-
>
> I have a need to expand a 1 band palette tif file into a 3 band (rgb) tif file.  I have found that gdal_translate -expand rgb will do this from the command line, but I was wondering if there was some way to do this within C# using the GDAL bindings?  I notice there is a ColorTable object and PaletteInterpretation object, but I haven't figured out yet (or seen anything online) about how to use these to expand the image.

Amanda,

You could skim the gdal_translate code to see how -expand rgb
works, but unfortunately it depends on access to VRT classes
that are not directly callable from C# or other swig bindings.  However,
you can compose the corresponding VRT XML directly in C# and
then "open" that VRT XML as a dataset that will have the expanded
bands.  This VRT dataset can then be passed to a CreateCopy() to
write out the expanded result.

I have attached the results of "gdal_translate -of VRT -expand rgb" on
a dataset as an example of the corresponding XML.

Best regards,
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