How to read GeoTiff with multiple images?

I am writing some functions to read in GeoTiff files in chronological order. I have come upon an error message when using the geotiffread function with certain files:

>> m=geotiffread('LC08_L1GT_123108_20170115_20170311_01_T2.tif')
Error using geotiffinfo>readinfo (line 261)
Multiple images exist in the file and their sizes are different.

Up until that point I did not know .tiff files could contain more than one image. When opening the suspect files with another document viewer I saw that indeed certain files are comprised of 8-12 images (all of different sizes), only one of which (the first one) I need. Looking up the documentation for

geotiffread

I came upon the syntax for working with multi image .tiff files using indexing but still get the same error. It appears the error occurs in the geotiffinfo function. I can load the image using

imread

but that does not load in the georeferencing object which is crucial for my project. Is there anyway around this error? Is there some Matlab functions for editing .tiff files so as to extract only the first image of the file along with the geo tags?

I am hoping I can do this without manually changing each file as there are many images I have to process...

Thank you!

Answer 1

[Chad Greene]

Maybe you can use imread and then use geotiffinfo for the georeferencing information?