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Can anyone provide advice regarding the easiest method to
swap raster bands around?



For example, I have a 4 band raster,


Band{0} Interpretation Type (Red16)


Band{1} Interpretation Type (Green16)


Band{2} Interpretation Type (Blue16)


Band{3} Interpretation Type (Uint16)



And I want to complete the following swapping


Band{3} -> becomes -> Band{0}


Band{0} -> becomes -> Band{1}


Band{1} -> becomes -> Band{2}


Band{2} -> becomes -> Band{3}



Is it possible to manipulate/flip the bands directly within
the raster? (How would this be done?)


Or do the bands need to be separated into singular elements and
then recombined and ordered? (How would this be done?)



Also relating to this example, in the source raster
described above, the Interpretation type of band{3} differs from Bands{0}..{2}.
If the bands were swapped would I need to also need to change the
interpretation types as below?


Band{3} Interpretation Type (Uint16) -> becomes -> Band{0} Interpretation Type (Red16)


Band{0} Interpretation Type (Red16) -> becomes -> Band{1} Interpretation Type (Green16)


Band{1} Interpretation Type (Green16) -> becomes -> Band{2}
Interpretation Type (Blue16)


Band{2} Interpretation Type (Blue16) -> becomes -> Band{3}
Interpretation Type (Uint16)



Essentially, if I wish to view a raster as an RGB do I need
to swap/change/update the interpretation type to the RGB channel which I want
it to be visualise as? I.e. is just swapping the band position NOT sufficient
to actually effect a colour change? Do I need to swap band position AND interpretation?


Any explanation as to the issues above would be gratefully received.



Finally, out of interest, why would the interpretation type
of Band{2} differ from the other 3 bands?



I am using FME Desktop 2015.1.



Regards,



Rob

Hi @rob14, of course you can separate the bands and recombine them after reordering (e.g. RasterBandSeparator ->Counter -> AttributeValueMapper -> Sorter -> RasterBandCombiner), but I think the RasterExpressionEvaluator with this setting does the trick simply.

Hi @takashi,

As always thanks for the advice.

I will try this method as it seems a more straight forward method of completing the swapping process (as opposed to splitting/sorting/combining).

I assume from the included transformer image, that what you are effectively doing is treating the interpretation types as your empty 'attribute containers' and you are updating the value with the band value? An elegant solution.

Thanks again I will try this.

Rob

You can use the following methods.

  1. RasterBandSeparator to split bands
  2. AttributeValueMapper to set new band order
  3. Sort by new band order
  4. Recombin bands

Red16,Green16,Blue16 and UInt16? They are also 16 bit unsigned integers, so you don't need to change the interpretation.

You can use the following methods.

  1. RasterBandSeparator to split bands
  2. AttributeValueMapper to set new band order
  3. Sort by new band order
  4. Recombin bands

Red16,Green16,Blue16 and UInt16? They are also 16 bit unsigned integers, so you don't need to change the interpretation.

Oh, as Takashi says, it's easier to use RaserExpressionEvaluator, and it's a better choice.

 

 

Hi @taojunabc

Thank you for the workflow you sent, it is always good to know a variety of methods. I had tried something similar but had missed a couple of vital steps.

Thanks also for the confirmation that all data types were the in fact the same at 'source'. I realise now that you are effectively not changing the data type as such, but that you are just telling the system to treat a given data type as a R, G, or B colour and then display it within this band. As there are only 3 options in this instance, the 'unused' band remains unassigned to a colour.

I guess that if you wanted to, you could only use any; or only, 1, 2 or bands (from the 4 band source)

Red16,Uint16,Uint16,Uint16

 

Red16,Uint16,Blue16,Uint16

 

Uint16,Uint16,Blue16,Uint16

 

etc.

 

Thanks for the post as this has helped my understanding.

Rob

Just now I found that FME provides a transformer named RasterBandOrderer. Use it can be very simple to achieve the purpose.

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Just now I found that FME provides a transformer named RasterBandOrderer. Use it can be very simple to achieve the purpose.

.

oops, I've missed this transformer. This exactly fits to the purpose :-)

 

Just now I found that FME provides a transformer named RasterBandOrderer. Use it can be very simple to achieve the purpose.

.

Hi @taojunabc

 

 

Thanks very much for sending this update, that is really useful.

 

 

Regards,

 

 

Rob

 

 

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