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gdalbuildvrt — Build Virtual Datasets from a list of existing datasets. More information: <https://gdal.org/en/stab

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Problem

How to use the gdalbuildvrt command: Build Virtual Datasets from a list of existing datasets. More information: <https://gdal.org/en/stable/programs/gdalbuildvrt.html>.

Solution

gdalbuildvrt — Build Virtual Datasets from a list of existing datasets. More information: <https://gdal.org/en/stable/programs/gdalbuildvrt.html>.

Make a virtual mosaic from all TIFF files contained in a directory:

gdalbuildvrt {{path/to/output.vrt}} {{path/to/input_directory/*.tif}}

Make a virtual mosaic from files whose name is specified in a text file:

gdalbuildvrt -input_file_list {{path/to/list.txt}} {{path/to/output.vrt}}

Make an RGB virtual mosaic from 3 single-band input files:

gdalbuildvrt -separate {{path/to/rgb.vrt}} {{path/to/red.tif}} {{path/to/green.tif}} {{path/to/blue.tif}}

Make a virtual mosaic with blue background color (RGB: 0 0 255):

gdalbuildvrt -hidenodata -vrtnodata "{{0 0 255}}" {{path/to/output.vrt}} {{path/to/input_directory/*.tif}}

Code Snippets

Make a virtual mosaic from all TIFF files contained in a directory

gdalbuildvrt {{path/to/output.vrt}} {{path/to/input_directory/*.tif}}

Make a virtual mosaic from files whose name is specified in a text file

gdalbuildvrt -input_file_list {{path/to/list.txt}} {{path/to/output.vrt}}

Make an RGB virtual mosaic from 3 single-band input files

gdalbuildvrt -separate {{path/to/rgb.vrt}} {{path/to/red.tif}} {{path/to/green.tif}} {{path/to/blue.tif}}

Make a virtual mosaic with blue background color (RGB: 0 0 255)

gdalbuildvrt -hidenodata -vrtnodata "{{0 0 255}}" {{path/to/output.vrt}} {{path/to/input_directory/*.tif}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/gdalbuildvrt

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