GDAL 2.2.1, released 2017/06/23

Usage: gdaladdo [-r {nearest,average,gauss,cubic,cubicspline,lanczos,average_mp,average_magphase,mode}] [-ro] [-clean] [-q] [-oo NAME=VALUE]* [--help-general] filename levels -r : choice of resampling method (default: nearest) -ro : open the dataset in read-only mode, in order to generate external overview (for GeoTIFF datasets especially) -clean : remove all overviews -q : turn off progress display -b : band to create overview (if not set overviews will be created for all bands) filename: The file to build overviews for (or whose overviews must be removed). levels: A list of integral overview levels to build. Ignored with -clean option. Useful configuration variables : --config USE_RRD YES : Use Erdas Imagine format (.aux) as overview format. Below, only for external overviews in GeoTIFF format: --config COMPRESS_OVERVIEW {JPEG,LZW,PACKBITS,DEFLATE} : TIFF compression --config PHOTOMETRIC_OVERVIEW {RGB,YCBCR,...} : TIFF photometric interp. --config INTERLEAVE_OVERVIEW {PIXEL|BAND} : TIFF interleaving method --config BIGTIFF_OVERVIEW {IF_NEEDED|IF_SAFER|YES|NO} : is BigTIFF used Examples: % gdaladdo -r average abc.tif 2 4 8 16 % gdaladdo --config COMPRESS_OVERVIEW JPEG --config PHOTOMETRIC_OVERVIEW YCBCR --config INTERLEAVE_OVERVIEW PIXEL -ro abc.tif 2 4 8 16