From gdal
Provides GDAL CLI workflows for raster and vector geospatial processing: inspection, reprojection, clipping, conversion, mosaics, tiling, rasterization, COG creation.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/gdal:gdalThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
Use GDAL command line tools for common raster and vector geospatial workflows.
Use GDAL command line tools for common raster and vector geospatial workflows.
Prefer the smallest tool that fits the task:
gdalinfoogrinfogdalwarpgdal_translategdalbuildvrtgdaltindexgdal_rasterizegdal2tiles.pyogr2ogrIf GDAL is not installed, ask the user to install it before continuing.
gdalinfo INPUT.tif
ogrinfo INPUT.shp -so
gdalwarp, gdal_translate, gdalbuildvrt, gdal_rasterize, gdal2tiles.pyogr2ogr, ogrinfo, gdaltindexgdalinfo OUTPUT.tif
ogrinfo OUTPUT.geojson -so
# Inspect
gdalinfo INPUT.tif
ogrinfo INPUT.shp -so
# Vector conversion and clipping
ogr2ogr -f GeoJSON -t_srs epsg:4326 OUTPUT.geojson INPUT.shp
gdaltindex -t_srs epsg:4326 -f GeoJSON OUTPUT_EXTENT.geojson INPUT_RASTER.tif
ogr2ogr -f GeoJSON -clipsrc OUTPUT_EXTENT.geojson OUTPUT_CLIPPED.geojson INPUT.shp
# Raster reprojection and clipping
gdalwarp -t_srs epsg:4326 INPUT.tif OUTPUT.tif
gdalwarp -cutline INPUT.shp -crop_to_cutline -dstalpha INPUT.tif OUTPUT.tif
# Raster conversion
gdal_translate -b 1 -b 2 -b 3 INPUT.tif OUTPUT.tif
gdal_translate -b 1 -b 2 -b 3 -of JPEG -outsize 400 0 INPUT.tif OUTPUT.jpg
# Mosaic and stack
gdalbuildvrt OUTPUT.vrt path/to/tiffs/*.tif
gdal_translate -co BIGTIFF=YES -co NUM_THREADS=ALL_CPUS -co COMPRESS=LZW -co PREDICTOR=2 OUTPUT.vrt OUTPUT.tif
# Rasterize and tile
gdal_rasterize -burn 1.0 -ot Byte -of GTiff -co COMPRESS=LZW -co BIGTIFF=YES INPUT.shp OUTPUT.tif
gdal2tiles.py -z 10-16 INPUT_BYTE.tif OUTPUT/
# COG
gdalwarp -co BIGTIFF=YES -co NUM_THREADS=ALL_CPUS -co COMPRESS=LZW -co PREDICTOR=2 -of COG INPUT.tif OUTPUT.tif
references/gdal-recipes.mdnpx claudepluginhub isaaccorley/geospatial-skills --plugin gdalProcesses geospatial raster data: clips by bounding box, stacks bands, mosaics GeoTIFFs, converts between raster and vector formats using geoai library.
Provides geospatial analysis: remote sensing, GIS, spatial ML, satellite imagery processing (Sentinel, Landsat, etc.), vector/raster ops, point clouds, network analysis, cloud-native workflows with 500+ code examples in 8 languages.
Covers geospatial science across remote sensing, GIS, spatial analysis, and ML for Earth observation with code examples in 8 languages. Use for satellite imagery processing, vector/raster operations, spatial statistics, and cloud-native geospatial workflows.