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2004.03.03 16:40 "Re: Reading caspian.tif", by Andrey Kiselev
Simon, On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 04:17:19PM -0500, Simon Granger wrote: > I downloaded the TIFF test images at > ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/pics-3.6.1.tar.gz , loaded > caspian.tif with my own code using libtiff and saw the following > problem: > > The samples in caspian.tif are double-precision IEEE floating point > with no SMINSAMPLEVALUE and SMAXSAMPLEVALUE tags. So when I read the > samples, I'm expecting that they'll be in the range [0.0, 1.0]. But > they're not: the actual range of all the samples in caspian.tif is > [9.0, 946.0]. But why did you expected the values will be in 0.0,1.0 range? If we have floating point data then the whole range can be occupied. For displaying purposes you should find min/max values yourself and scale image properly. Andrey -- Andrey V. Kiselev Home phone: +7 812 5274898 ICQ# 26871517