[gdal-dev] Re: Geotiff with bands of different type

[Jukka Rahkonen]

Martin Raspaud <martin.raspaud <at> smhi.se> writes:

> 
> 
> Frank Warmerdam skrev:
> > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Martin Raspaud <martin.raspaud <at>
smhi.se> wrote:
> >> Hmmm, that sounds like a sufficient solution indeed, very good idea, 
thanks.
> >>
> >> Is there any scale/slope and offset/intercept tags defined in geotiff ?
> > 
> > Martin,

> 
> > I should note that in theory the TIFF specification allows a
> > mix of sample types, but in practice this is not done in the
> > real world, and libtiff does not support it.
> > 
> > GDAL *does* support reading mixed band types from a variety
> > of file formats, but not TIFF.  As noted, AddBand() can be used
> > in a few format cases to create mixed band types though this is
> > rarely done.
> 
> Thanks for the explanation. We might jump over to netcdf4 if 
geotiff becomes too
> limited.


Hi,

JPEG2000 for supports what you need I am sure you could create such images with
Kakadu tools. I don't know if GDAL JP2KAK driver handles it, though.