Ability to remove specific bands within raster datasets

[VaasuDevanS]

Feature description

The current workflow is to use gdal raster select command to subset required bands and write a separate dataset. It would be really great if there is a simpler way to "remove" specific bands in-place or write as new raster.

something like below:

gdal raster select in.tif out.tif --band 3,4 --remove`
gdal raster select in.tif --band 3,4 --remove

The rationale is given a 10-band raster image, removing a couple bands should be faster in terms of processing and writing than selecting and writing 8 bands to disk.

Additional context

No response

[jratike80]

If you need a physical 8-band image as a result you must create a new physical file. If you want to see only 8 bands from the 10-band original, create a VRT.

gdal raster select in.tif out.vrt --band 1,2,5,6,7,8,9,10