extracting the outline of raster imagery using GDAL

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Salams I want some help regarding developing a method using GDAL to extract and represent the footprint of any raster file (or group of raster data) in a vector format... any ideas please ??

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

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You can use the gdaltindex command at the command line for this. Here is an example.

gdaltindex output.shp folder/*.tif

You could also use a QGIS plugin for this as inidicated in this post.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

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answered Mar 27 '15 at 14:44

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extracting the outline of raster imagery using GDAL

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