Opened 10 years ago

Closed 5 years ago

#5478 closed defect (wontfix)

gdal_calc.py gives different answers depending on type of multiplier

Reported by: timcera Owned by: warmerdam
Priority: normal Milestone: closed_because_of_github_migration
Component: default Version: unspecified
Severity: normal Keywords:
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Description

Discovered an interesting problem with gdal_calc.py

The following gives incorrect answers:

gdal_calc.py -A wg.tif -B lc.vrt --outfile=lue.vrt --calc=A*20+B

But the following works fine:

gdal_calc.py -A wg.tif -B lc.vrt --outfile=lue.vrt --calc=A*20.0+B

Just shifting the 20 from integer to float did the trick.

The 'wg.tif' and 'lc.vrt' are Byte.

Attachments (2)

one.tif (29.7 KB ) - added by Jukka Rahkonen 9 years ago.
two.tif (29.7 KB ) - added by Jukka Rahkonen 9 years ago.

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Change History (5)

by Jukka Rahkonen, 9 years ago

Attachment: one.tif added

by Jukka Rahkonen, 9 years ago

Attachment: two.tif added

comment:1 by Jukka Rahkonen, 9 years ago

I had also a try with the attached images "one.tif" and "two.tif" and GDAL 1.11.1, released 2014/09/24. For me using integer as multiplier seems to be giving a good result but using a decimal number is no good.

gdal_calc -A one.tif -B two.tif --outfile three-one.tif --calc="A*20+B"
gdal_calc -A one.tif -B two.tif --outfile three-two.tif --calc="A*20.0+B"

The first command yields a valid image as far as I understand. The latter creates somehow faulty image and gdalinfo -stats throws an error:

ERROR 1: three-two.tif, band 1: Failed to compute statistics,
no valid pixels found in sampling.

comment:2 by meier, 8 years ago

Both of the file formats are of the type byte. When you compute A*20 + B, you are overshooting the byte-limits of the layer channel (255). For instance, if the histogram values of A and B (for a particular pixel of a raster layer) are 123 and 77 respectively, then A*20 + B >> 255. The image that will be the output is wrongly formatted. For such an operation, I recommend scaling the images to a higher format (maybe word-aligned/32-bit channel) using gdal_translate http://www.gdal.org/gdal_translate.html and then computing the same.

Last edited 8 years ago by meier (previous) (diff)

comment:3 by Even Rouault, 5 years ago

Milestone: closed_because_of_github_migration
Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

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