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GDAL Command Line Basics Guide

The document provides a guide on basic command prompt operations and GDAL command line usage. It includes commands for changing directories, listing files, creating directories, and running Python scripts, as well as various GDAL commands for image processing and format conversion. Additionally, it references online resources for further information on GDAL functionalities.

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GDAL Command Line Basics Guide

The document provides a guide on basic command prompt operations and GDAL command line usage. It includes commands for changing directories, listing files, creating directories, and running Python scripts, as well as various GDAL commands for image processing and format conversion. Additionally, it references online resources for further information on GDAL functionalities.

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Command prompt basics

cd changes directory # cd my_folder

cd.. goes back to previous directory

dir lists all files in a directory

mkdir creates a new directory # mkdir new_folder

start opens a new command prompt window in the given directory

start . opens the folder/directory you are located in (in windows GUI)

python runs a python script # python my_script.py

Arrow up pervious line

Tab autocomplete

GDAL command line basics

Can also be run from within python by using [Link](‘command’)

e.g. [Link](‘gdal_translate C:/folder/my_file.tif C:/folder/my_file.jpg’)

Many of the functions have also been implemented in python but the names and syntax is a bit different.

[Link]

gdalinfo my_image.tif # lists information about a raster dataset

[Link] # can do changes to formats, resolution, bands, compression etc.

gdal_translate [Link] [Link] # changes format from tif to jpg

gdal_translate [Link] [Link] # converts a .vrt to a .tif

gdal_translate –outsize 500 500 [Link] [Link] # changes x y dimensions of image

gdal_translate –tr 10 10 [Link] [Link] # changes pixel resolution of image

gdal_translate –co compress=deflate [Link] [Link] # applies deflate compression

gdal_translate –b 1 –b 2 –b 3 [Link] [Link] # creates a new image with selected bands

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gdalbuildvrt [Link] *tif # creates a vrt of all tiff images in the directory

gdalbuildvrt -input_file_list my_list.txt [Link] # creates a .vrt of all images in a list of files

[Link]

gdaladdo [Link] 2 4 8 16 # creates overview of a vrt or raster which significantly speeds of the view/interaction in
a GIS software – can take a long time if many overviews are computed on a large image. Very useful for .vrts. The
numbers given a just an example

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gdaltindex [Link] *tif # creates an polygon shapefile (or other vector formats – e.g. gpkg) with the footprints of
all images in a directory.

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