[gdal-dev] gdal_merge and HFA band statistics

[Matt Hanneman]

Can anyone tell me why the option 'STATISTICS=YES' works when using 
gdal_translate to translate from TIF to HFA (Erdas Imagine), but will 
NOT work when using gdal_merge to stack multiple TIFs into HFA? I need 
ArcMap to read the statistics, but it doesnt seem that they are being 
written to the file. I find this strange because ArcMap can identify the 
Stats when an HFA image is created with gdal_translate.

I am using GDAL version 1.7.3

Here is an example of the code I am using:

gdal_merge -o "output.img" -of HFA -co STATISTICS=YES -co 
FORCETOPESTRING=YES -separate -v "image1.tif" "image2.tif" "image3.tif"

gdal_translate -of HFA -co STATISTICS=YES -co FORCETOPESTRING=YES  
"image1.tif" "image1.img"

Thanks for any advise.

Matt

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