See http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/ug_imageoverlays.html#requirements, I don't believe the "NITF (rw+): National Imagery Transmission Format" is supported by Google Earth.
Roger -- On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:27 PM, mohwawang <mohwaw...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm sorry that this is the third time I tried to send this message out > because I myself didn't get the first two through gdal-...@lists.osgeo.orgso > I thought others might not get it either. > > I used gdal_translate to convert a tif image to a nitf image as: > >gdal_translate -of nitf in.tif out.ntf -co ICORDS=G > Input file size is 561, 420 > 0...10...20...30...40...50...60...70...80...90...100 - done. > > I can display both in.tif and out.ntf with OpenEV. So both in.tif and > out.ntf were ok to OpenEV. > > With a simple Google Earth kml file(specifying the LanLonBox)(printed > below) I could import the in.tif to Google Earth viewer to the right > geo-location. So in.tif was ok to GE. > > However, after replacing the image file name from in.tif to out.ntf in the > same kml file (printed below) I could not import the out.ntf to Google Earth > viewer (shown as a big red cross in a big red rectangle at the geo-location > in the GE viewer). So out.ntf was not ok to GE. Any ideal about what might > cause the problem? Was the use of gdal_translate wrong or missing some > options? I tried not to use -co ICRODS=G but I got the same problem. Thank > you. > > printed kml for in.tif: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2"; > xmlns:gx="http://www.google.com/kml/ext/2.2"; > xmlns:kml="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2"; > xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";> > <GroundOverlay> > <description> > *** Meta-Data *** > Lat = 42.808863 > </description> > <name>in.tif</name> > <Icon> > <href>in.tif</href> > <viewBoundScale>0.75</viewBoundScale> > </Icon> > <LatLonBox> > <north>42.8093748999134</north> > <south>42.8082925732318</south> > <east>-70.887525562763</east> > <west>-70.8894939447889</west> > <rotation>-95.909027</rotation> > </LatLonBox> > </GroundOverlay> > </kml> > > printed kml for out.ntf: same as in.tif except: > > <name>out.ntf</name> > <Icon> > <href>out.ntf</href> > <viewBoundScale>0.75</viewBoundScale> > </Icon> > > Best Regards, > > Mo Wang > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev >
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