Re: [GM-apis] multispectral file access
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From: Norman G. <no...@te...> - 2014-08-31 19:50:51
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Thanks to John & Bob for pointing out that GM is not designed for multispectral imagery, rather 1-5 channels. I assume the same is true for IM. Of the two components of VIPS, I would be interested in libvips (fortunately LGPL!). It seems that libvips is on the verge of releasing a rewrite, which I assume would be version 8. It all sounds appealing, specially the tiling/caching for large images. When do you think version 8 will be made available? I have also be looking at OpenImageIO https://sites.google.com/site/openimageio/home It also seems to satisfy what I need. The documentation is quite good, explaining also how to write plugins. I would probably need to write my own geotiff plugin on top of the tiff plugin. Still in the evaluation stage ... On 08/31/2014 12:31 PM, jc...@gm... wrote: > On 31 August 2014 13:33, Norman Goldstein <no...@te...> wrote: >> Not sure from faq/docs whether GM can be used to deal with multispectral >> data, say TIF with 116 channels in a single IFD: >> -- Open an existing file and select 30 channels to read, or >> -- Create a new multispectral file > GM is 1 - 5 channels I believe. > > I maintain a scientific image processing library which allows images > with any number of bands: > > http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk > > It might be suitable, it depends on your needs. > > John > |