[gdal-dev] How to estimate the width/height size of output image in a target CRS without running gdalwarp?

Bang Pham Huu b.phamhuu at jacobs-university.de
Thu May 17 23:38:01 PDT 2018


Thanks Even, your suggestion works, I found an example here for Python
that could help others with this powerful feature:
https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/140053/17733


On 05/17/2018 09:02 PM, Even Rouault wrote:
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> On jeudi 17 mai 2018 11:33:40 CEST Bang Pham Huu wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> >
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> > I have a hard problem to find the width/height of a 2D GeoTiff file
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> > which is reprojected from a source CRS (e.g: EPSG:4326) to target CRS
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> > (e.g: EPSG:3857) without running gdalwarp. Because, the file could be
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> > large (GBs) and I don't need the projected output file, just need the
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> > width/height of it.
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> >
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> > What could be done with gdalwarp is:
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> >
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> > gdalwarp  -s_srs EPSG:4326 -t_srs EPSG:3857 full.tif full_3857.tif
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> >
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> > gdalinfo full_3857.tif
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> >
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> > Size is 879, 811 (width/height).
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> >
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> > I've searched a lot and what seems to be good without doing the real
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> > projection is this gdal function: GDALSuggestedWarpOutput2
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> >
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/106c8288e7a05f4efc1a588c5a3b2da7ec52d915/
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> > gdal/alg/gdaltransformer.cpp#L354. However, it doesn't help because my
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> > application developed in Java and it uses gdal-java (GDAL JNI)
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> >
> https://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails%7Corg.gdal%7Cgdal%7C1.11.1%7Cpom
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> > as library. Unfortunately, I cannot find this GDALSuggestedWarpOutput2()
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> > from gdal-java http://gdal.org/java/overview-summary.html then cannot
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> > invoke this C++ function from my application to test.
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> >
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> > Can anyone please give me a hint to solve this problem?
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>  
>
> Hi,
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>  
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> You can use gdal.AutoCreateWarpedVRT() which will create a in-memory
> warped
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> VRT without doing the actual warping.
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>  
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> http://gdal.org/java/org/gdal/gdal/gdal.html#AutoCreateWarpedVRT-org.gdal.gdal.Dataset-
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>  
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> and query the dimensions of the returned Dataset
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>  
>
> Even
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>  
>
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