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I am trying to figure out how to merge adjacent raster datasets. Is there any clear algorithms (may be a pseudo code)?

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How are you determining the source raster? Is it a selected raster, from a list, all in a directory, etc.? – Ryan Garnett Mar 27 at 22:38
It's a collection of JPG images in one directory. each of them has a world file (.jpgw) and a projection file (.prj). – lio Mar 27 at 22:53
Do you want to find the rasters on all potential sides (ie: 4 sides along the raster edge) – Ryan Garnett Mar 27 at 23:20
yes, it's the situation what I'm dealing with. It's some kind of mosaiced images that i want to merge in one image. – lio Mar 27 at 23:34

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Well if you are looking to merge all the images from a folder you can do a two step process.

1) Use command prompt to make a directory list file [ dir c:\temp\*.jpg /b /s >c:\temp\imagelist.txt ]

2) Using FWTools run gdal_merge [ gdal_merge -o c:\temp\mosaic.tif -q -v --optfile c:\temp\imagelist.txt ]

This will make a file of all the images in a directory, and then mosaic the files into an output file.

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Thank you very much, What I was searching for is an algorithm to embed in my gis application. However, this tool seems to be useful and suits my needs. Thank you – lio Mar 28 at 3:36
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GDAL can be accessed through its C / C++ API, or the bindings which exist for it in numerous languages. – scw Mar 28 at 7:54

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