Hi Ken:
Since your goal is not merely to get 'any' tile of custom photo-real imagery to display in the general vicinity of its real world location, and are instead needing to align the area of this current project with the nearby KBHM custom photo-real imagery project you have been working on for years, I am making the case for precision as an advocate on your behalf, as you undergo the learning of what is required to achieve your overall projects goals.
Because your imagery downloaded from EarthExplorer requires re-projection to a format which can be worked with via the SBuilderX work-space GUI, a GIS application must be used to accurately re-format that imagery
before you use Add Map > From Disk.
The fact that one can use the SBuilderX "Calibrate" feature during import of 'any' imagery supported by the Add Map > From Disk means that one must have previously re-projected the imagery in a GIS application, so that any changes to the imagery "shape" and Geographic corner coordinates are correctly updated in the newly re-projected Geo-Referencing metadata
before they are used to enter corner pixel coordinates in that SBuilderX "Calibrate" feature dialog box.
Once your imagery downloaded from EarthExplorer is accurately projected and displayed via the SBuilderX work-space GUI, you can process it as Mike describes above.
AFAIK, from the point you select and commit the imagery displayed via the SBuilderX work-space GUI to be processed, SBuilderX will internally perform an additional re-projection to the actual GIS format required by SDK Resample, as it writes a
*.BMP,
*.TXT and
*.INF file into:
[SBuilderX install path]\Tools\
Work
If you arbitrarily choose to Calibrate imagery via Add Map > From Disk that has
not previously been re-projected, and successfully "trick" SBuilderX into displaying and processing it to output source files for SDK Resample,
you are more likely going to have inaccurate results.
If SDK Resample does not complete its task of creating a BGL, there is always a reason, and it nearly always will be displayed in the CMD window.
Be cause that CMD window may only be on screen briefly, one may not be able to read it before it closes.
Bearing in mind that if SDK Resample is provided with a proper set of source files, it completes its task and CMD messages need not be read.
Although you 'could' manually attempt to Drag-And_Drop or Copy-And-Paste the
*.INF file onto SDK Resample.exe, that fact that a BGL was not output by SDK Resample.exe is evidence that there was a problem.
While it is true that one might get more info on what may have gone wrong with the compilation process by keeping the CMD window on screen when manually attempting to compile source files that IMHO,
likely already have a problem, I suggest that it would be more practical to focus initially on learning how to get your imagery downloaded from EarthExplorer accurately projected and displayed via the SBuilderX work-space GUI.
I am in the process of performing hardware upgrades to my main development computer and will be limited in my access to a functioning software environment in which I might otherwise be able to assist you with a step-by-step troubleshooting guide for at least another day or 2.
As I mentioned above, you must
first re-project your imagery downloaded from EarthExplorer before attempting to use Add Map > From Disk to Calibrate it ( using ONLY the newly re-projected Metadata from the GIS application- and
NOT that from the original EarthExplorer download ! ) so it can be displayed in / selected from, then semi-automatically processed / compiled to BGL ...via the SBuilderX work-space GUI.
Hi Ken:
As I explained in our PM communications related to this thread, SDK Resample (
and SDK SHP2VEC as well !) require source data in a specific GIS projection.
Re-projecting your USGS imagery from UTM projection, NAD83 (Alabama HPGN) datum to Geographic projection, WGS84 datum requires a GIS application.
Perhaps others with the time and patience to allocate for learning how to use the QGIS and/or OSGEO4W GIS platform ...might provide a tutorial here ?
GaryGB
PS: Note that my quoted procedure immediately above is for re-projection to a GIS format that is manually / directly submitted to SDK Resample.
IIUC, your goal is to process imagery downloaded from EarthExplorer so it can be displayed / processed via the SBuilderX work-space GUI.
IIRC, to re-project your imagery downloaded from EarthExplorer so it is accurately projected before one uses Add Map > From Disk and the Calibrate dialog, so it can be displayed via SBuilderX work-space GUI, the GIS format must be a Mercator type projection (preferably EPSG:3857).
GaryGB
