[FWTools] NULL or background values during merges/warp

[Frank Warmerdam]

Shaun Kolomeitz wrote:
> Dear FWTools,
> 
> I am wondering if there is a way to specify a NULL value when merging
> images which have those annoying black strips on their edges ?
> In the past I have clipped images to remove this "strip", but when you
> are processing 500+ images this gets way too time intensive.
> Ideally I'd like the merge process to ignore band values of 0,0,0
> (especially around the edge). I realise this is probably going to
> exclude some pixels which are actually "black" as opposed to being
> "NULL", but I can't see any other way around it.
> 
> I can demonstrate this more graphically if required.

Shaun,

The gdalwarp command has the -srcnodata switch which should do that.

gdal_merge.py has a roughly corresponding -n switch.

Best regards,
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