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Editing Raster Metadata

The types of metadata that you can edit depend on the output format that you select for an image.

1. Select one or more jobs in the Job List.

2. Click the Edit Metadata button in the toolbar.

   The Metadata Manager appears.

3. To edit user metadata, ensure that the User tab of the Metadata Manager is selected.

   • Add user tags by clicking Add User Tag, then entering a name and value for the tag. Alternatively, select an existing tag name from the drop-down.
   • Edit the values of existing tags by clicking the value field and entering another value.

   NOTE: Tag names cannot contain spaces, and tag values cannot be empty. Existing tags can be deleted but cannot be renamed.

4. To edit image metadata, click the Image tab of the Metadata Manager.

   • Save the image's coordinate reference system in the metadata by clicking Select a Coordinate Reference System or entering a custom well known text (WKT) string in the WKT text field.

     For more information on selecting a coordinate reference system, see Selecting a Coordinate Reference System.

   • Edit the image origin, image resolution, and dynamic range.

   NOTE: Selecting a coordinate reference system in the Metadata Manager does not reproject the image.

5. To edit NITF metadata, click the NITF Options tab in the Metadata Manager.
   • Edit the file header and file security fields in the File Header subtab.
   • Edit the image subheader, image comments, and image security fields in the Image Subheader subtab.
6. Click OK.

NOTE: Some existing JPEG 2000 images are encoded in such a way that certain decoders may fail to display them if you edit their metadata. To accommodate these images, GeoExpress handles several JPEG 2000 parameters in a special way. If you are editing the metadata of existing images and wish to change parameters for tile length markers, packet length markers, or tile parts, you must change them on the JPEG 2000 tab of the Preferences dialog. (For more information see JPEG 2000 Preference Options and Advanced JPEG 2000 Options.)