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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Much better (I was confused by those curly braces thinking it was part of python syntax).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Though still get this warning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Warning 1: No 1D variable is indexed by dimension time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But otherwise gdalinfo does not complain on anything wrong<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The “-co” is confusing. I had to add in other situations otherwise some options were not set.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Julia does not use bindings, it can access the exported functions in shared libraries directly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">(if you are curious see <a href="https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/calling-c-and-fortran-code/">
https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/calling-c-and-fortran-code/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">and <a href="https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/c/#ccall">
https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/c/#ccall</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">so passing that vector of strings should be translated automatically to a “char *string[]” and GDAL expects the “-co” (I think)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:PT">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:PT"> Even Rouault <even.rouault@spatialys.com>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 14, 2021 8:14 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Joaquim Manuel Freire Luís <jluis@ualg.pt>; gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gdal-dev] Writing multi-bands vs multi-datasets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Le 14/10/2021 à 21:03, Joaquim Manuel Freire Luís a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Even,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">There are some issues with this way.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">My draft Julia function looks like bellow (tested with a MxNx7 array) but get this errors</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">julia> GMT.write_multiband(cube, "gd_cube.nc")</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Warning 1: No 1D variable is indexed by dimension time</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Warning 6: creation option '-co' is not formatted with the key=value format</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Warning 6: creation option '-co' is not formatted with the key=value format</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Warning 6: creation option '-co' is not formatted with the key=value format</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:PT">I don't know the Julia bindings, but the error message seems to suggest you can remove the "-co" element in your options[] array since it presumably must only contain the "key=value" creation options,
like in the Python bindings<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">ERROR 1: netcdf error #-45 : NetCDF: Not a valid data type or _FillValue type mismatch .</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">at (C:\programs\compa_libs\gdal_GIT\gdal\frmts\netcdf\netcdfdataset.cpp,netCDFDataset::CreateCopy,9012)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">ERROR 1: netcdf error #-49 : NetCDF: Variable not found .</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">at (C:\programs\compa_libs\gdal_GIT\gdal\frmts\netcdf\netcdfdataset.cpp,NCDFPutAttr,10454)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Warning 1: No 1D variable is indexed by dimension time</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">And indeed the “time” variable shows up filled with 7 zeros when I open the nc file that is nevertheless created.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Also checked with getmetadataitem(ds, "NETCDF_DIM_time_VALUES") that the "1,2,3,4,5,6,7" info was correctly set.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:PT">You need to surround the values of the _DEF and _VALUES items with { and } braces to indicate this is a list (this is the particular syntax expected by the netCDF driver)<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I’s also strange the warnings about the “-co” options also because they were in fact taken into account. Omitting them creates a classic nc file.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">function write_multiband(cube, fname::AbstractString, v=nothing; dim_name::String="time")</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> nbands = size(cube,3)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> ds = gmt2gd(cube)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span>Gdal.setmetadataitem(ds, "NETCDF_DIM_EXTRA", dim_name)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Gdal.setmetadataitem(ds, "NETCDF_DIM_" * dim_name * "_DEF", "$(nbands),6")<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> Gdal.setmetadataitem(ds, "NETCDF_DIM_" * dim_name * "_VALUES", "1,2,3,4,5,6,7")</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> Gdal.setmetadataitem(ds, dim_name * "#axis", string(dim_name[1]))</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> crs = Gdal.getproj(cube, wkt=true)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> (crs != "" ) && Gdal.setproj!(ds, crs)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> Gdal.unsafe_copy(ds, filename=fname, driver=getdriver("netCDF"), options=["-co", "FORMAT=NC4", "-co", "COMPRESS=DEFLATE", "-co", "ZLEVEL=4"])</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">end<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:PT">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:PT"> Even Rouault
<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com"><even.rouault@spatialys.com></a> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 10, 2021 10:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Joaquim Manuel Freire Luís <a href="mailto:jluis@ualg.pt"><jluis@ualg.pt></a>;
<a href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gdal-dev] Writing multi-bands vs multi-datasets</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Joaquim,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/4634">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/4634</a> should hopefully help<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Even<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Le 10/10/2021 à 22:26, Joaquim Manuel Freire Luís a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I have a Julia version of gdal_translate (that ends up calling GDALDatasetRasterIOEx) that works in saving a MxNxP array, but not the way I wanted.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It creates a multi-subdatasets file, whilst what I wished is to write a multi-band file.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For example, the file written with this Julia function looks like below</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">How can I write a multi-band instead of a multi-datasets?
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I’ve been looking at the docs of GDALDatasetRasterIOEx but can’t see any way of picking one or the other.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Joaquim</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">gdalinfo cube_rad.nc</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Driver: netCDF/Network Common Data Format</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Files: cube_rad.nc</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Size is 512, 512</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Metadata:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> NC_GLOBAL#Conventions=CF-1.5</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> NC_GLOBAL#GDAL=GDAL 3.4.0dev, released 2021/99/99</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> NC_GLOBAL#history=Sun Oct 10 13:01:06 2021: GDAL CreateCopy( cube_rad.nc, ... )</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Subdatasets:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> SUBDATASET_1_NAME=NETCDF:"cube_rad.nc":Band1</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> SUBDATASET_1_DESC=[1567x1519] Band1 (32-bit floating-point)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> SUBDATASET_2_NAME=NETCDF:"cube_rad.nc":Band2</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> SUBDATASET_2_DESC=[1567x1519] Band2 (32-bit floating-point)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Saving the same data (or similar) from a Matlab code that I wrote long ago to stack grids, shows</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">gdalinfo evi_cube.nc</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Driver: netCDF/Network Common Data Format</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Files: evi_cube.nc</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Size is 37, 59</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Origin = (580140.000000000000000,4418550.000000000000000)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Pixel Size = (30.000000000000000,-30.000000000000000)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Metadata:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> latitude#actual_range={4416795,4418535}</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> longitude#units=degrees_east</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> NC_GLOBAL#Conventions=COARDS</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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