GDAL Installation
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GDAL Installation |
Third party software supplies additional features to the gCube framework. In the following sections installation details are given for external software used by the gCube framework.
GDAL Installation
The Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is released under an X/MIT style Open Source license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful command line utilities for data translation and processing.
Installation
Windows OS
At this link a rich GUI-based guide is provided.
Linux OS - Ubuntu
The following passages are sufficient:
cd /tmp mkdir gdal-linux cd gdal-linux sudo apt-get install build-essential python-all-dev wget http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.9.0.tar.gz tar xvfz gdal-1.9.0.tar.gz cd gdal-1.9.0 ./configure --with-python make make install Example of test: /usr/bin/gdal_translate p_edulis_map.img p_edulis_map.tiff