/*!
\page gdal_tutorial

<center>
<title>GDAL API Tutorial</title>
</center>

<h2>Opening the File</h2>



Before opening a GDAL supported raster datastore it is necessary to 
register drivers.  There is a driver for each supported format.  Normally
this is accomplished with the GDALAllRegister() function which attempts
to register all known drivers, including those auto-loaded from .so files
using GDALDriverManager::AutoLoadDrivers().  If for some applications it
is necessary to limit the set of drivers it may be helpful to review
the code from <a href="gdalallregister.cpp.html">gdalallregister.cpp</a>.

Once the drivers are registered, the application should call the free
standing GDALOpen() function to open a dataset, passing the name of the
dataset and the access desired (GA_ReadOnly or GA_Update). 

In C++:
\code
#include "gdal_priv.h"

int main()
{
    GDALDataset  *poDataset;

    GDALAllRegister();

    poDataset = (GDALDataset *) GDALOpen( pszFilename, GA_ReadOnly );
    if( poDataset == NULL )
    {
	...;
    }
\endcode

In C:
\code
#include "gdal.h"

int main()
{
    GDALDatasetH  hDataset;

    GDALAllRegister();

    hDataset = GDALOpen( pszFilename, GA_ReadOnly );
    if( hDataset == NULL )
    {
	...;
    }
\endcode

In Python:
\code
    import gdal
    from gdalconst import *

    dataset = gdal.Open( filename, GA_ReadOnly )
    if dataset is None:
        ...
\endcode

Note that if GDALOpen() returns NULL it means the open failed, and that
an error messages will already have been emitted via CPLError().  If you want
to control how errors are reported to the user review the CPLError() 
documentation.  Generally speaking all of GDAL uses CPLError() for error
reporting.  Also, note that pszFilename need not actually be the name
of a physical file (though it usually is).  It's interpretation is driver
dependent, and it might be an URL, a filename with additional parameters
added at the end controlling the open or almost anything.  Please try not
to limit GDAL file selection dialogs to only selecting physical files.

<h2>Getting Dataset Information</h2>

As described in the <a href="gdal_datamodel.html">GDAL Data Model</a>, a
GDALDataset contains a list of raster bands, all pertaining to the same
area, and having the same resolution.  It also has metadata, a coordinate
system, a georeferencing transform, size of raster and various other 
information.  If we wanted to print some general information about the 
dataset we might do the following:

In C++:
\code
    double        adfGeoTransform[6];

    printf( "Driver: %s/%s\n",
            poDataset->GetDriver()->pszShortName, 
            poDataset->GetDriver()->pszLongName );

    printf( "Size is %dx%dx%d\n", 
            poDataset->GetRasterXSize(), poDataset->GetRasterYSize(),
            poDataset->GetRasterCount() );

    if( poDataset->GetProjectionRef()  != NULL )
        printf( "Projection is `%s'\n", poDataset->GetProjectionRef() );

    if( poDataset->GetGeoTransform( adfGeoTransform ) == CE_None )
    {
        printf( "Origin = (%.6f,%.6f)\n",
                adfGeoTransform[0], adfGeoTransform[3] );

        printf( "Pixel Size = (%.6f,%.6f)\n",
                adfGeoTransform[1], adfGeoTransform[5] );
    }
\endcode

In C:
\code
    GDALDriverH   hDriver;
    double        adfGeoTransform[6];

    hDriver = GDALGetDatasetDriver( hDataset );
    printf( "Driver: %s/%s\n",
            GDALGetDriverShortName( hDriver ),
            GDALGetDriverLongName( hDriver ) );

    printf( "Size is %dx%dx%d\n",
	    GDALGetRasterXSize( hDataset ), 
            GDALGetRasterYSize( hDataset ),
            GDALGetRasterCount( hDataset ) );

    if( GDALGetProjectionRef( hDataset ) != NULL )
        printf( "Projection is `%s'\n", GDALGetProjectionRef( hDataset ) );

    if( GDALGetGeoTransform( hDataset, adfGeoTransform ) == CE_None )
    {
        printf( "Origin = (%.6f,%.6f)\n",
                adfGeoTransform[0], adfGeoTransform[3] );

        printf( "Pixel Size = (%.6f,%.6f)\n",
                adfGeoTransform[1], adfGeoTransform[5] );
    }
\endcode

In Python (note, driver bindings are not currently available):
\code
    print 'Size is ',dataset.RasterXSize,'x',dataset.RasterYSize, \
          'x',dataset.RasterCount
    print 'Projection is ',dataset.GetProjection()
    
    geotransform = dataset.GetGeoTransform()
    if not geotransform is None:
	print 'Origin = (',geotransform[0], ',',geotransform[3],')'
	print 'Pixel Size = (',geotransform[1], ',',geotransform[5],')'
\endcode

<h2>Fetching a Raster Band</h2>

At this time access to raster data via GDAL is done one band at a time.
Also, there is metadata, blocksizes, color tables, and various other 
information available on a band by band basis.  The following codes fetches
a GDALRasterBand object from the dataset (numbered 1 through GetRasterCount())
and displays a little information about it.

In C++:
\code
	GDALRasterBand  *poBand;
        int             nBlockXSize, nBlockYSize;
        int             bGotMin, bGotMax;
        double          adfMinMax[2];
	
        poBand = poDataset->GetRasterBand( 1 );
	poBand->GetBlockSize( &nBlockXSize, &nBlockYSize );
        printf( "Block=%dx%d Type=%s, ColorInterp=%s\n",
                nBlockXSize, nBlockYSize,
                GDALGetDataTypeName(poBand->GetRasterDataType()),
                GDALGetColorInterpretationName(
                    poBand->GetColorInterpretation()) );

        adfMinMax[0] = poBand->GetMinimum( &bGotMin );
        adfMinMax[1] = poBand->GetMaximum( &bGotMax );
        if( ! (bGotMin && bGotMax) )
            GDALComputeRasterMinMax((GDALRasterBandH)poBand, TRUE, adfMinMax);

        printf( "Min=%.3fd, Max=%.3f\n", adfMinMax[0], adfMinMax[1] );
        
        if( poBand->GetOverviewCount() > 0 )
            printf( "Band has %d overviews.\n", poBand->GetOverviewCount() );

        if( poBand->GetColorTable() != NULL )
            printf( "Band has a color table with %d entries.\n", 
                     poBand->GetColorTable()->GetColorEntryCount() );
\endcode

In C:
\code
	GDALRasterBand  hBand;
        int             nBlockXSize, nBlockYSize;
        int             bGotMin, bGotMax;
        double          adfMinMax[2];
	
        hBand = GDALGetRasterBand( hDataset, 1 );
        GDALGetBlockSize( hBand, &nBlockXSize, &nBlockYSize );
        printf( "Block=%dx%d Type=%s, ColorInterp=%s\n",
                nBlockXSize, nBlockYSize,
                GDALGetDataTypeName(GDALGetRasterDataType(hBand)),
                GDALGetColorInterpretationName(
                    GDALGetRasterColorInterpretation(hBand)) );

        adfMinMax[0] = GDALGetRasterMinimum( hBand, &bGotMin );
        adfMinMax[1] = GDALGetRasterMaximum( hBand, &bGotMax );
        if( ! (bGotMin && bGotMax) )
            GDALComputeRasterMinMax( hBand, TRUE, adfMinMax );

        printf( "Min=%.3fd, Max=%.3f\n", adfMinMax[0], adfMinMax[1] );
        
        if( GDALGetOverviewCount(hBand) > 0 )
            printf( "Band has %d overviews.\n", GDALGetOverviewCount(hBand));

        if( GDALGetRasterColorTable( hBand ) != NULL )
            printf( "Band has a color table with %d entries.\n", 
                     GDALGetColorEntryCount(
                         GDALGetRasterColorTable( hBand ) ) );
\endcode

In Python (note several bindings are missing):
\code
	band = dataset.GetRasterBand(1)

	print 'Band Type=',gdal.GetDataTypeName(band.DataType)

        if not band.GetRasterColorTable() is None:
	    print 'Band has a color table.'
\endcode

<h2>Reading Raster Data</h2>

There are a few ways to read raster data, but the most common is via
the GDALRasterBand::RasterIO() method.  This method will automatically take 
care of data type conversion, up/down sampling and windowing.  The following 
code will read the first scanline of data into a similarly sized buffer,
converting it to floating point as part of the operation.

In C++:
\code
	float *pafScanline;
        int   nXSize = poBand->GetXSize();

        pafScanline = (float *) CPLMalloc(sizeof(float)*nXSize);
        poBand->RasterIO( GF_Read, 0, 0, nXSize, 1, 
                          pafScanline, nXSize, 1, GDT_Float32, 
                          0, 0 );
\endcode

In C:
\code
	float *pafScanline;
        int   nXSize = GDALGetRasterBandXSize( hBand );

        pafScanline = (float *) CPLMalloc(sizeof(float)*nXSize);
	GDALRasterIO( hBand, GF_Read, 0, 0, nXSize, 1, 
                      pafScanline, nXSize, 1, GDT_Float32, 
                      0, 0 );
\endcode

In Python (note that the returned scanline is of type string, and contains
xsize*4 bytes of raw binary floating point data):

\code
 	scanline = band.ReadRaster( 0, 0, band.XSize, 1, \
                                    band.XSize, 1, GDT_Float32 )
\endcode

The RasterIO call takes the following arguments. 
\code
CPLErr GDALRasterBand::RasterIO( GDALRWFlag eRWFlag,
                                 int nXOff, int nYOff, int nXSize, int nYSize,
                                 void * pData, int nBufXSize, int nBufYSize,
                                 GDALDataType eBufType,
                                 int nPixelSpace,
                                 int nLineSpace )
\endcode

Note that the same RasterIO() call is used to read, or write based on 
the setting of eRWFlag (either GF_Read or GF_Write).  The nXOff, nYOff, 
nXSize, nYSize argument describe the window of raster data on disk to 
read (or write).  It doesn't have to fall on tile boundaries though access
may be more efficient if it does.  

The pData is the memory buffer the data is read into, or written from.  It's
real type must be whatever is passed as eBufType, such as GDT_Float32, or
GDT_Byte.  The RasterIO() call will take care of converting between the 
buffer's data type and the data type of the band.  Note that when converting
floating point data to integer RasterIO() rounds down, and when converting
source values outside the legal range of the output the nearest legal value
is used.  This implies, for instance, that 16bit data read into a GDT_Byte
buffer will map all values greater than 255 to 255, <b>the data is not 
scaled!</b>

The nBufXSize and nBufYSize
values describe the size of the buffer.  When loading data at full resolution
this would be the same as the window size.  However, to load a reduced 
resolution overview this could be set to smaller than the window on disk.  In
this case the RasterIO() will utilize overviews to do the IO more efficiently
if the overviews are suitable. 

The nPixelSpace, and nLineSpace are normally zero indicating that default
values should be used.  However, they can be used to control access to 
the memory data buffer, allowing reading into a buffer containing other
pixel interleaved data for instance.  

<h2>Closing the Dataset</h2>

Please keep in mind that GDALRasterBand objects are <i>owned</i> by their
dataset, and they should never be destroyed with the C++ delete operator. 
GDALDataset's can be closed either by calling GDALClose() or using the
delete operator on the GDALDataset.   Either will result in proper cleanup,
and flushing of any pending writes.  

*/