Re: [gdal-dev] [PROPOSAL] Add CADRG write support via RPFTOC/NITF drivers

2025-06-12 Thread Brad Hards via gdal-dev
On Thursday, 12 June 2025 6:47:43 PM AEST Patrik Sylve via gdal-dev wrote: > Thank you all for the inputs! > Our use cases are also within defense applications, so the format is indeed > still in active use. I also have some interest in the format. Its important in aviation since it has fast, and

Re: [gdal-dev] [PROPOSAL] Add CADRG write support via RPFTOC/NITF drivers

2025-06-12 Thread Patrik Sylve via gdal-dev
[PROPOSAL] Add CADRG write support via RPFTOC/NITF drivers   You don't often get email from warmer...@pobox.com. Learn why this is important Patrik, I have no objection to such a proposal, but in my experience with specific NITF based product profiles it is often not worth trying to support c

Re: [gdal-dev] [PROPOSAL] Add CADRG write support via RPFTOC/NITF drivers

2025-06-11 Thread Jim Bellenger via gdal-dev
When I worked for NGA, I had software that took an input GeoTIFF image and output the RPF files. A separate program was used to create the a.toc file. The process is not trivial. The vector quantization compression is not simple. At one time, ERDAS took the RPF code and incorporated it into thei

Re: [gdal-dev] [PROPOSAL] Add CADRG write support via RPFTOC/NITF drivers

2025-06-11 Thread Michael Smith via gdal-dev
I would like to say that unfortunately even in this day and age there are still places that use and work with these terrible formats. It would definitely be used by the US Army Corps and NGA. Even if I wish we wouldn’t. Michael SmithUS Army Corps. On Jun 11, 2025, at 9:08 AM, Frank Warmerdam via gd

Re: [gdal-dev] [PROPOSAL] Add CADRG write support via RPFTOC/NITF drivers

2025-06-11 Thread Frank Warmerdam via gdal-dev
Patrik, I have no objection to such a proposal, but in my experience with specific NITF based product profiles it is often not worth trying to support completely based on write support built into the GDAL drivers themselves. For producing NCDRD compliant NITF files our approach at Planet has been

Re: [gdal-dev] [PROPOSAL] Add CADRG write support via RPFTOC/NITF drivers

2025-06-11 Thread Even Rouault via gdal-dev
Hi Patrick, It feels a bit strange that write support for CADRG is needed in 2025, but besides that, your proposal sounds solid as far as I remember the details of those formats. I guess the most interesting part will be write support for vector quantization to figure out the VQ LUT that min