[gdal-dev] Unable to convert NTF to png

[Patrick Young]

What is the bit depth of the NTF?  You might need to scale it to an 8bit
range when converting it, check out the -scale option flag for
gdal_translate

https://gdal.org/programs/gdal_translate.html#cmdoption-gdal_translate-scale

On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 3:33 PM Aparna Nimbalker via gdal-dev <
gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hello, I am a beginner to gdal and I am working with .ntf, .NTF file
> formats.
>
> I am trying to convert this one .NTF file (unfortunately I cannot share
> the file)  to a .png, so I can easily open it up and use it for a future
> processing. This particular .NTF file is 1.39 GB.
>
> Right now I am working on a mac, in the terminal. I am using conda and
> have set up a (gdal_project) environment. I have downloaded all the
> necessary gdal packages and libraries by running conda install -c
> conda-forge gdal in the terminal.
>
> I tried running for f in *.NTF do gdal_translate ${f} pngs/${f%.*}.png;
> done
>  in the terminal for the NTF file I mentioned above (it was the only one
> in the folder I was looping through). However, even though it creates a
> png, all I see is a large png that does not show the image, but is
> completely black.
>
> Please let me know where I am going wrong. Is there something I am missing
> or should be doing that I am currently not? Is there a solution to my
> problem?
>
>
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