[gdal-dev] Does GDAL support ArcInfo Binary Grids with multiple bands?

[Jason Roberts]

Frank,

Please see http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3116. Thanks for looking at
this.

Best,
Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:warmerdam at pobox.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 5:51 PM
To: Jason Roberts
Cc: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Does GDAL support ArcInfo Binary Grids with multiple
bands?

Jason Roberts wrote:
> Is the GDAL ArcInfo Binary Grid (AIG) driver intended to support AIGs 
> with multiple bands? I have a 5-band AIG for which the Python gdal 
> bindings for GDAL 1.6.0 report "`C:\Temp\ccomp2' not recognised as a 
> supported file format." ArcGIS 9.3.1 reports that the "format" of it is 
> "GRID Stack 7.x". It was created using standard ArcGIS tools.
  >
> If this is not supported, I can work around the problem. I just would 
> like to know the intent of the GDAL team.

Jason,

I'd like to investigate the dataset if possible, to try and understand
why it isn't supported and if it could be easily enabled.

Best regards,
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