pkcreatect - program to create and import colour table to GTiff image
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Description
pkcreatect is a utility to include a color table to a raster dataset. You can either define an existing
color table (ASCII text file) with the option -ct or define a minimum (-min) and maximum (-max) value.
Example
Attach a color table to image with values between 0 and 50
pkcreatect-iimage.tif-oimage_ct.tif-min0-max50
Attach a grey scale "color" table to image with values between 0 and 100 and create a legend image (anno‐
tation needs to be drawn manually)
pkcreatect-iimage.tif-oimage_ct.tif-min0-max100-llegend.tif-g
Attach a predefined color table to image.tif. The colortable has 5 entries for the values 0 (black), 1
(red), 2 (green), 3 (blue) and 4 (grey)
catcolortable.txt
0 0 0 0 255
1 255 0 0 255
2 0 255 0 255
3 0 0 255 255
4 100 100 100 255
pkcreatect-iimage.tif-oimage_ct.tif-ctcolortable.txt
Remove the color table from an image
pkcreatect-iimage.tif-oimage_noct.tif-ct none
01 January 2025 pkcreatect(1)
Name
pkcreatect - program to create and import colour table to GTiff image
Options
-ifilename, --inputfilename
input image
-ofilename, --outputfilename
output classification image
-ctfilename, --ctfilename
colour table in ASCII format having 5 columns: id R G B ALFA (0: transparent, 255: solid)
-minnumber, --minnumber
minimum value
-maxnumber, --maxnumber
maximum value
options
-g, --grey
grey scale
-offormat, --oformatformat
Output image format (see also gdal_translate(1)).
-cooption, --cooption
Creation option for output file. Multiple options can be specified.
-ddescription, --descriptiondescription
Set image description
-v, --verbose
verbose
Advanced options
-lfilename, --filenamefilename
Create legend as png file
-dimcols-dimrows, --dimcols--dimrows
number of columns and rows in legend.
Synopsis
pkcreatect-iinput-ooutput [-ctcolortable | -minvalue-maxvalue] [options] [advancedoptions]
