[GRASS-user] How to import a massive PCI pix raster as tiles?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Patton, Eric wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a PCI pix raster, and it's pretty big - 2.4 GB. I'm not familiar with this image format as I've never worked with it before. Gdalinfo seems to recognize it, but importing it with r.in.gdal crashes with the following error:
> 
> $
> $ gdalinfo DEMvalley.pix
> 
> Driver: PCIDSK/PCIDSK Database File
> Size is 65362, 41926

Eric,

You can do:

  gdal_translate -srcwin 0 0 65362 20000 DEMvalley.pix DEMvalley_top.tif
  gdal_translate -srcwin 0 20000 65362 21926 DEMvalley.pix DEMvalley_bottom.tif

to split the image into two chunks.  I don't know about the r.in.gdal crash.

Best regards,
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