thread 'main' panicked at 'The TIFF file does not contain geokeys'

[cflynn8]

I am trying to incorporate several whitebox tools into a geoprocessing workflow. Right now, I am just trying to test a few tools. I keep getting the same error:

thread 'main' panicked at 'The TIFF file does not contain geokeys', whitebox-tools-app\src\main.rs:72:21 note: run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display a backtrace

I was able to import whitebox tools and set the working directory using wbt.set_working_dir

Here is an example of the code that results in the above error: wbt.fill_missing_data("SampleTiles_DEM.tif", "wbt_test_filled_DEM.tif", filter=15, weight=2.0)

Any tips would be appreciated! Thank you!

[jblindsay]

Can I ask how you created the GeoTiff file? It seems that there is an issue with reading the file.

[cflynn8]

A group of individual raster files were created with blast2dem from las tools. Then using gdal, a .vrt file was created to mosaic them together. Then gdal warp was used to create the actual GeoTiff. Thank you!

[jblindsay]

Are you able to share a sample of the DEM so that I can examine the file? It is clear from the error that the WBT reader is not recognizing this file as a properly formatted GeoTIFF. That isn't necessarily indicating that that is the case--WBT does not use GDAL but rather uses my own implementation of a GeoTIFF reader/writer and it is obviously more limited in the variations of GeoTIFF that it is able to process (I'm only one guy and GeoTIFF is a massive spec). Examining the problematic data can help me diagnose the problem and hopefully lead to improvements in the flavours of GeoTIFF WBT can work with.

[cflynn8]

Can you access the data here: (https://gmuedu-my.sharepoint.com/:i:/g/personal/cflynn8_gmu_edu/EfFcFjLFpn5Co3OcChIHeNIBKQ2nj5m4dn3tCNakixFdaw?e=M9anHg)

Thank you for being that "one guy"!

[jblindsay]

I'm downloading it now, thank you.

[cflynn8]

Everything works well if I create the raster using the whitebox tools lidar tin gridding and mosaic

[prof-pguth]

The Geotiff I just loaded into a new thread might be another chance for you to track down the source of the error in parsing the GeoKeys. I know exactly how hard the Geotiff spec is.

[mbodnar-GS]

I had this happen when I was working in a custom coordinate system. As soon as I reprojected to UTM it worked fine.

[TokyoWarfare]

Hello. It is happening also to me.

I edited a tiff in photoshop and restored the coordinates using this tool

https://freegeographytools.com/2007/a-new-gui-for-the-libgeotiff-worldfile-utilities

I've uploaded the conflicting image and the cloud I whant to project into. https://mega.nz/folder/JsUAVZTS#EfZM44xBOx099ie3ECnQjQ

Hopefully it helps- I will try to do the reprojection tip suggest. I'm new to Qgis so hopefully I can handle that easily.

[TokyoWarfare]

I confirm solution by @mbodnar-GS works! Raster-->Projection-->AsignProjections-->WGS84 (the only one in my dropwodown in my cas) PRojects flawlessly. Thank you so much!!

[Ryan3Lima]

I tried to run the sink tool in ArcGISPro 3.2.1 on a .tif from the 3DEP national elevation dataset: USGS_1M_12_x51y380_AZ_USFS_3DEP_Processing_2019_D20.tif, and nothing happens. Then I used the DEM in the test data and it created output but there was no data (perhaps the test DEM doesnt have sinks?). Then I tried to run it on google colab and got this same error:

./whitebox_tools --run="Sink" --input='/content/drive/MyDrive/GIS/Test_data/USGS_1M_12_x51y380_AZ_USFS_3DEP_Processing_2019_D20.tif' --output='/content/drive/MyDrive/GIS/Test_data/sink_fil.tif' -v --compress_rasters=False

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Reading data... thread 'main' panicked at 'The GeoTIFF reader does not currently support floating-point predictors (PREDICTOR=3).', whitebox-tools-app/src/main.rs:72:21 note: run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display a backtrace.

I tried reprojecting the raster into UTM zone 12, and WGS84 and still no output..... I also tried with and without a datum specified. Nothing seemed to work. Any other ideas?

[jblindsay]

Hi @Ryan3Lima, The error "The GeoTIFF reader does not currently support floating-point predictors (PREDICTOR=3)." is telling you that the compression method used in your raster is not supported by Whitebox. You just need to alter the raster so that it uses a different compression method or no compression.

[Ryan3Lima]

Thanks! that worked