GDAL<\/a> is a translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats. As a library, it presents a single raster abstract data model and single vector abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful command line utilities for data translation and processing. <\/p>\n There are no restrictions on access to the GDAL libraries on CSF. The software is released under a MIT\/X-like license<\/a>. All usage must adhere to this license.<\/p>\n We now recommend loading modulefiles within your jobscript so that you have a full record of how the job was run. See the example jobscript below for how to do this. Alternatively, you may load modulefiles on the login node and let the job inherit these settings<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n Load one<\/strong> of the following modulefiles to set up your environment:<\/p>\n You will mostly use the GDAL installation on CSF3 when compiling your own software. This allows you to add GDAL functionality to your own apps. There are some tools you can also run to process existing data files (see below).<\/p>\n The modulefiles will set an environment variable named An example compilation command could be<\/p>\n You must load the GDAL modulefile before running your GDAL-capable application (unless you have statically linked your code against the GDAL libraries). <\/p>\n Please do not run GDAL-capable applications on the login node. Jobs should be submitted to the compute nodes via batch.<\/p>\n Create a batch submission script (which will load the modulefile in the jobscript), for example:<\/p>\n Submit the jobscript using: <\/p>\n where scriptname<\/em> is the name of your jobscript.<\/p>\n The GDAL See the GDAL website for full documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n None.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Overview GDAL is a translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats. As a library, it presents a single raster abstract data model and single vector abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful command line utilities for data translation and processing. Restrictions on use There are no restrictions on access to the GDAL libraries on CSF. The software is released under a.. Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":140,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4508","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4508"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12206,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4508\/revisions\/12206"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Restrictions on use<\/h2>\n
Set up procedure<\/h2>\n
\r\nmodule load libs\/gcc\/gdal\/3.12.2 # Uses CSF3_EL9 system default GCC 11.5.0 compiler.\r\n # Includes support for HDF5 1.14.3, HDF4 4.3.1,\r\n # NetCDF 4.9.3, GEOS 3.14.1 and PROJ 9.1.1\r\n # (these modulefiles will be loaded automatically)\r\n\r\nmodule load libs\/gcc\/gdal\/2.4.4 # Uses system default GCC 4.8.5 compiler.\r\n # Includes support for HDF5 1.8.21, NetCDF 4.6.2\r\n # and GEOS 3.8.0 (these modulefiles will be\r\n # loaded automatically)\r\n\r\nmodule load libs\/intel-18.0\/gdal\/2.4.4 # Use the Intel 18.0 compiler. Does NOT<\/strong> include\r\n # HDF5, NetCDF and GEOS support. It may<\/em> provide\r\n # better performance than the gcc version.\r\n<\/pre>\n
Compiling an GDAL-capable application<\/h2>\n
${GDALDIR}<\/code> which can then be used in your compilation process (e.g., in a Makefile or directly on the command-line) to access the header and library files:<\/p>\n\n
gcc -I${GDALDIR}\/include ....<\/pre>\n<\/li>\ngcc ... -L${GDALDIR}\/lib -lgdal<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n${GDALDIR}<\/code> rather than $GDALDIR<\/code>.<\/li>\ngdal-config<\/code> application will be added to your PATH<\/code> environment variable – some applications may run this to determine where the GEOS files are installed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\r\ngcc -I${GDALDIR}\/include example_gdal.c -o example_gdal -L${GDALDIR}\/lib -lgdal\r\n<\/pre>\nRunning an GDAL-capable application<\/h2>\n
Serial batch job submission<\/h3>\n
\r\n#!\/bin\/bash --login\r\n#$ -cwd # Job will run from the current directory\r\n # NO -V line - we load modulefiles in the jobscript\r\n\r\n# Load the serial (non-MPI) modulefile\r\nmodule load libs\/gcc\/gdal\/2.4.4\r\n\r\n# Run my application I compiled earlier\r\n.\/mygdalapp<\/em> arg1<\/em> ...\r\n<\/pre>\n
qsub scriptname<\/em><\/pre>\n
GDAL Tools<\/h3>\n
bin<\/code> directory is added to your path so that you can access the gdal...<\/code> tools. Use ls ${GDALBIN}<\/code> to see all binary tools:<\/p>\n\r\n# GDAL tools - must be used in batch jobs, as above\r\ngdaladdo gdalenhance gdal_rasterize gdal_translate ogr2ogr\r\ngdalbuildvrt gdal_grid gdalserver gdalwarp ogrinfo\r\ngdal-config gdalinfo gdalsrsinfo gnmanalyse ogrlineref\r\ngdal_contour gdallocationinfo gdaltindex gnmmanage ogrtindex\r\ngdaldem gdalmanage gdaltransform nearblack testepsg\r\n<\/pre>\n
Further info<\/h2>\n
Updates<\/h2>\n