Geotiff Georeferencing – How to Determine if a TIFF is Georeferenced

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I received a tiff file from someone, but I'm not sure if it's georeferenced. Is there an easy way to check this?

Best Answer

Looks like gdalinfo will tell you:

A non-georeferenced figure exported from ArcMap layout:

C:\Temp>gdalinfo figure1.tif
Driver: GTiff/GeoTIFF
Files: figure1.tif
Size is 244, 210
Coordinate System is `'
Metadata:
  TIFFTAG_XRESOLUTION=96
  TIFFTAG_YRESOLUTION=96
  TIFFTAG_RESOLUTIONUNIT=2 (pixels/inch)
Image Structure Metadata:
  INTERLEAVE=PIXEL
Corner Coordinates:
Upper Left  (    0.0,    0.0)
Lower Left  (    0.0,  210.0)
Upper Right (  244.0,    0.0)
Lower Right (  244.0,  210.0)
Center      (  122.0,  105.0)
Band 1 Block=244x11 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Red
Band 2 Block=244x11 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Green
Band 3 Block=244x11 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Blue

A aerial photo:

C:\Temp>gdalinfo Adona_1.tif
Driver: GTiff/GeoTIFF
Files: Adona_1.tif
       Adona_1.tif.ovr
       Adona_1.tfw
       Adona_1.tif.aux.xml
Size is 5426, 5522
Coordinate System is:
PROJCS["NAD83 / Arkansas North",
    GEOGCS["NAD83",
        DATUM["North_American_Datum_1983",
            SPHEROID["GRS 1980",6378137,298.2572221010002,
                AUTHORITY["EPSG","7019"]],
            AUTHORITY["EPSG","6269"]],
        PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],
        UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],
        AUTHORITY["EPSG","4269"]],
    PROJECTION["Lambert_Conformal_Conic_2SP"],
    PARAMETER["standard_parallel_1",36.23333333333333],
    PARAMETER["standard_parallel_2",34.93333333333333],
    PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin",34.33333333333334],
    PARAMETER["central_meridian",-92],
    PARAMETER["false_easting",1312333.333333333],
    PARAMETER["false_northing",0],
    UNIT["US survey foot",0.3048006096012192,
        AUTHORITY["EPSG","9003"]],
    AUTHORITY["EPSG","26951"]]
Origin = (1045317.554567784100000,261147.746197238540000)
Pixel Size = (0.500000000000000,-0.500000000000000)
Metadata:
  TIFFTAG_SOFTWARE=Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows
  TIFFTAG_DATETIME=2010:08:04 07:39:30
  TIFFTAG_XRESOLUTION=1
  TIFFTAG_YRESOLUTION=1
  TIFFTAG_RESOLUTIONUNIT=2 (pixels/inch)
  AREA_OR_POINT=Area
Image Structure Metadata:
  INTERLEAVE=PIXEL
Corner Coordinates:
Upper Left  ( 1045317.555,  261147.746) ( 92d53'31.49"W, 35d 2'50.94"N)
Lower Left  ( 1045317.555,  258386.746) ( 92d53'31.19"W, 35d 2'23.64"N)
Upper Right ( 1048030.555,  261147.746) ( 92d52'58.86"W, 35d 2'51.19"N)
Lower Right ( 1048030.555,  258386.746) ( 92d52'58.56"W, 35d 2'23.88"N)
Center      ( 1046674.055,  259767.246) ( 92d53'15.03"W, 35d 2'37.41"N)
Band 1 Block=5426x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Red
  Overviews: 2713x2761, 1357x1381, 679x691, 340x346, 170x173
Band 2 Block=5426x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Green
  Overviews: 2713x2761, 1357x1381, 679x691, 340x346, 170x173
Band 3 Block=5426x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Blue
  Overviews: 2713x2761, 1357x1381, 679x691, 340x346, 170x173
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