Tiling Large Rasters

[Frank Warmerdam]

Titus von der Malsburg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> normally I tile raster images with a little script that uses netpbm to
> load the data und cut out the tiles.  But now I have an image to tile
> that is too large to be loaded into memory.
>
> Actually it should be possible to do the tiling with constant memory
> consumption (ammount of memory not depending on the size of the image).
>
> Is there any software out there that accomplishes this task?
>
> I looked briefly into the documentation of Grass but couldn't find
> anything.

Titus,

There is user written code for a program based on GDAL that will accomplish
this task in bug:

   http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604

You are on your own to build and test it through.  I haven't tried it yet.

Best regards,
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