[gdal-dev] -scale command

[Frank Warmerdam]

hjp85 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have numerous velocity raster images from an ice sheet model that I would
> like to scale so that each raster has has a maximum value of 1000 and
> minimum value of 0. At the moment they all have different max values
> depending on what the fastest velocity of the ice sheet is at that moment in
> time.
> 
> What i'm not sure on is how to construct the command. The example given is;
> -scale [src_min src_max [dst_min dst_max]]
> 
> but how do you get the input range to be automatically computed (i.e.
> src_min and src_max), so that i don't have to look up each one in turn?
> 
> -scale 0 1000 doesn't work for me...

Henry,

Unfortunately due to the way the -scale commandline argument is
processed you cannot allow it to autoselect the input range and still
allow you to use a non default output range.

So either you need to just use -scale and let it rescale things to 0 to 255
(and then perhaps rescale again to 0 to 1000), or you could run gdalinfo
with the -mm (min max) switch to find the maximum value in advance.

Best regards,
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