[gdal-dev] Making a "hole" in existing image

[Travis Kirstine]

gdal_rasterize can be used to create a hole using a polygon from a
vector datasource.

gdal_rasterize -burn 0 -b 1 -b 2 -b 3 -l my_polygon my_image.tif my_polygon.shp

regards

On 22 November 2011 11:22, Jay Jennings <Jennings.Jay at geoeye.com> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I’m looking for a slick way, using GDAL utilities, to make a NoData “hole”
> in an existing image :  I’d like to set value 0 (which is this image’s
> NoData value) for each band of the image within the rectangle denoted by
> minX, minY, maxX, maxY.  I looked at ‘gdal_translate’ and ‘gdalwarp’ but I
> didn’t see any obvious way to get there.
>
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> Jay Jennings
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> GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY)
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