[GRASS-user] r.in.gdal and .raw files

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Markus Metz
>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > anyone has experience with .raw files? I happen to have one to analyze
>> > (quite large indeed) and  r.in.gdal doesn't seem to support it. However,
>> > for some magics, qgis is able to open it and I'm now converting it to tif.

... are you using the same GDAL version in QGIS and GRASS GIS?

>> > But it's taking kinda forever. Any better idea?
>>
>> A .raw file could be a raw data file from a digital camera, but it can
>> also be anything else. Can QGIS tell you what kind of file this is?
>
> It is mosaic from digital camera (RGB).

But if it is a mosaic, the camera file got already postprocessed?
If not, there are various formats:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format#File_contents

ciao
markusN