[gdal-dev] Using GDAL with KOMPSAT-2 images

[Frank Warmerdam]

Luis Lisboa wrote:
> Greetings
> 
> While I was importing to GRASS some KOMPSAT-2 images I got a few 
> warnings. Then, I decided to do some GDALINFO over those Kompsat-2 
> images and I got the following warnings:
> 
> Warning 1: TIFFFetchNormalTag:ASCII value for tag "DocumentName" does 
> not end in null byte
> Warning 1: TIFFFetchNormalTag:ASCII value for tag "ImageDescription" 
> does not end in null byte
> Warning 1: TIFFFetchNormalTag:ASCII value for tag "Artist" does not end 
> in null byte
> Warning 1: TIFFFetchNormalTag:ASCII value for tag "HostComputer" does 
> not end in null byte
...
> What this warnings refer to? is this a critical issue?
> 

Luis,

This is not a critical error, only a warning.  However, if you are in
contact with the data producer you might encourage them to bring their
TIFF production into agreement with the specification which requires
that the last byte of these text items should be a zero byte.

Best regards,
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