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Virtual rasters (VRT ) do not contain the actual pixel values of the raster cells. Instead, these virtual files in XML format describe the raster data by: name and location (path) of the real raster file, number of bands, lines and columns, projection information, etc.
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Check http://www.gdal.org/gdal_vrttut.html for an example how to define the subelements for raw raster bands.
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McInerney, D., Kempeneers, P. (2015). Virtual Rasters and Raster Calculations. In: Open Source Geospatial Tools. Earth Systems Data and Models. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01824-9_11
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