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Inspecting raster files

Getting basic information

We can use gdalinfo to get information about a raster data file:

gdalinfo inputFile.tif

Where:

• inputFile.tif is the raster file of interest.

Now run gdalinfo on our image of San Francisco:

gdalinfo sf_4269.tif

The result will be a slew of information on the raster including basic statistics (e.g. min, max, mean) of the raster cells, the bounding box, and the projection info, etc.

Listing drivers

Often times you will want to check what types of data formats gdal supports. You can access the list of these file formats using the gdal_translate --formats command:

gdal_translate --formats