[gdal-dev] using gdal_merge with floating images

[Even Rouault]

On Sunday 26 July 2015 00:40:48 Andrea Peri wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm try-ing to merging some rasters using gdal_merge.
> The raster are all float64 and with differents interval of values.
> Is this kind of rasters compatible with gdal_merge ?
> 
> I ask because , my try was stopped with a crash.

gdal_merge should be able to work with any data type as far as I can see. It 
could have issues with rasters that don't fit into RAM, but this should result 
in a "clean" error, not a process termination.

You can try with gdalwarp as well

> 
> And perhaps this could be the explanation.
> 
> Many thx.

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