diff --git a/Modules/Core/Metadata/include/otbImageMetadata.h b/Modules/Core/Metadata/include/otbImageMetadata.h
index ac8b9f2c574015598aef13d4e1d7a0e4350b7636..e951bab05ea154f68898367efd78843058f3d57d 100644
--- a/Modules/Core/Metadata/include/otbImageMetadata.h
+++ b/Modules/Core/Metadata/include/otbImageMetadata.h
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ public:
   std::string ToJSON(bool multiline=false) const;
 
   /** Import metadata from a string keywordlist.
-   * Will skip MDGeom::SensorGeometry).
+   * Will skip MDGeom::SensorGeometry.
    * Returns True if all keywords were parsed correctly.
    */
   bool FromKeywordlist(const Keywordlist&);
diff --git a/Modules/IO/IOGDAL/include/otbGDALImageIO.h b/Modules/IO/IOGDAL/include/otbGDALImageIO.h
index c199eb751f2fd8ed589e6a9e97aec8e88551b060..0266c2bd9bb2d2f4748239c03416a566d00501c1 100644
--- a/Modules/IO/IOGDAL/include/otbGDALImageIO.h
+++ b/Modules/IO/IOGDAL/include/otbGDALImageIO.h
@@ -228,6 +228,11 @@ protected:
   /** Destructor.*/
   ~GDALImageIO() override;
 
+  /** Set the metadata from a Keywordlist*/
+  void KeywordlistToMetadata(ImageMetadataBase::Keywordlist, int band=-1);
+  /** Parses a GDAL Metadata string list to fill a Keywordlist*/
+  void GDALMetadataToKeywordlist(const char* const* , ImageMetadataBase::Keywordlist &);
+
   void PrintSelf(std::ostream& os, itk::Indent indent) const override;
   /** Read all information on the image*/
   void InternalReadImageInformation();
diff --git a/Modules/IO/IOGDAL/src/otbGDALImageIO.cxx b/Modules/IO/IOGDAL/src/otbGDALImageIO.cxx
index 0a6ad605b4d6d79fade494c70bb11f3ecce316dd..b93d8900679da2115ecbdeec855e307bc2e26e22 100644
--- a/Modules/IO/IOGDAL/src/otbGDALImageIO.cxx
+++ b/Modules/IO/IOGDAL/src/otbGDALImageIO.cxx
@@ -1830,26 +1830,15 @@ void GDALImageIO::ExportMetadata()
   // be prefixed by: MDGeomNames[MDGeom::SensorGeometry] + '.'
   ImageMetadataBase::Keywordlist kwl;
   m_Imd.ToKeywordlist(kwl);
-  for (const auto& kv : kwl)
-    {
-    SetAs(kv.first, kv.second);
-    }
+  KeywordlistToMetadata(kwl);
 
   int bIdx = 0;
   for (const auto& band : m_Imd.Bands)
-    {
+  {
     band.ToKeywordlist(kwl);
-    if (band.Has(MDNum::NoData))
-      {
-      // remove from kwl as it is already handled before
-      kwl.erase(MetaData::MDNumNames.left.at(MDNum::NoData));
-      }
-    for (const auto& kv : kwl)
-      {
-      SetAs(kv.first, kv.second, bIdx);
-      }
+    KeywordlistToMetadata(kwl, bIdx);
     ++bIdx;
-    }
+  }
 }
 
 void GDALImageIO::ImportMetadata()
@@ -1859,6 +1848,80 @@ void GDALImageIO::ImportMetadata()
   // Keys Starting with: MDGeomNames[MDGeom::SensorGeometry] + '.' should
   // be decoded by the (future) SensorModelFactory.
   // Use ImageMetadataBase::FromKeywordlist to ingest the metadata
+  if (std::string(GetMetadataValue("METADATATYPE")) != "OTB")
+    return;
+  ImageMetadataBase::Keywordlist kwl;
+  GDALMetadataToKeywordlist(m_Dataset->GetDataSet()->GetMetadata(), kwl);
+  m_Imd.FromKeywordlist(kwl);
+  for (int band = 0 ; band < m_NbBands ; ++band)
+  {
+    kwl.clear();
+    GDALMetadataToKeywordlist(m_Dataset->GetDataSet()->GetRasterBand(band+1)->GetMetadata(), kwl);
+    m_Imd.Bands[band].FromKeywordlist(kwl);
+  }
+}
+
+void GDALImageIO::KeywordlistToMetadata(ImageMetadataBase::Keywordlist kwl, int band)
+{
+  for (const auto& kv : kwl)
+  {
+    if (kv.first == MetaData::MDGeomNames.left.at(MDGeom::SensorGeometry))
+    {
+      SetMetadataValue("MDGeomNames[MDGeom::SensorGeometry].", kv.second.c_str(), band);
+    }
+    SetMetadataValue(kv.first.c_str(), kv.second.c_str(), band);
+  }
+}
+
+void GDALImageIO::GDALMetadataToKeywordlist(const char* const* metadataList, ImageMetadataBase::Keywordlist &kwl)
+{
+  // The GDAL metadata string list is formatted as a “Name=value” list with the last pointer value being NULL.
+  for ( ; *metadataList != nullptr ; ++metadataList )
+    {
+      std::string metadataLine = std::string(*metadataList);
+      // The key and the value are separated by the '=' symbol
+      std::string::size_type pos = metadataLine.find('=');
+      std::string fieldName = metadataLine.substr(0, pos);
+      std::string fieldValue = metadataLine.substr(pos+1);
+      if((fieldName.size() > 36) && (fieldName.substr(0, 36) == "MDGeomNames[MDGeom::SensorGeometry]."))
+      {
+        // TODO: Keys Starting with: MDGeomNames[MDGeom::SensorGeometry] + '.' should
+        // be decoded by the (future) SensorModelFactory.
+      }
+      else if (fieldName == MetaData::MDGeomNames.left.at(MDGeom::RPC))
+      {
+        Projection::RPCParam rpcStruct;
+        rpcStruct.LineOffset    = this->GetAs<double>("RPC/LINE_OFF");
+        rpcStruct.SampleOffset  = this->GetAs<double>("RPC/SAMP_OFF");
+        rpcStruct.LatOffset     = this->GetAs<double>("RPC/LAT_OFF");
+        rpcStruct.LonOffset     = this->GetAs<double>("RPC/LONG_OFF");
+        rpcStruct.HeightOffset  = this->GetAs<double>("RPC/HEIGHT_OFF");
+
+        rpcStruct.LineScale    = this->GetAs<double>("RPC/LINE_SCALE");
+        rpcStruct.SampleScale  = this->GetAs<double>("RPC/SAMP_SCALE");
+        rpcStruct.LatScale     = this->GetAs<double>("RPC/LAT_SCALE");
+        rpcStruct.LonScale     = this->GetAs<double>("RPC/LONG_SCALE");
+        rpcStruct.HeightScale  = this->GetAs<double>("RPC/HEIGHT_SCALE");
+
+        std::vector<double> coeffs(20);
+
+        coeffs = this->GetAsVector<double>("RPC/LINE_NUM_COEFF",' ',20);
+        std::copy(coeffs.begin(), coeffs.end(), rpcStruct.LineNum);
+
+        coeffs = this->GetAsVector<double>("RPC/LINE_DEN_COEFF",' ',20);
+        std::copy(coeffs.begin(), coeffs.end(), rpcStruct.LineDen);
+
+        coeffs = this->GetAsVector<double>("RPC/SAMP_NUM_COEFF",' ',20);
+        std::copy(coeffs.begin(), coeffs.end(), rpcStruct.SampleNum);
+
+        coeffs = this->GetAsVector<double>("RPC/SAMP_DEN_COEFF",' ',20);
+        std::copy(coeffs.begin(), coeffs.end(), rpcStruct.SampleDen);
+
+        m_Imd.Add(MDGeom::RPC, rpcStruct);
+      }
+      else
+        kwl.emplace(fieldName, fieldValue);
+    }
 }
 
 
diff --git a/Modules/IO/IOGDAL/test/CMakeLists.txt b/Modules/IO/IOGDAL/test/CMakeLists.txt
index ca4b3b01a385a691a1207e2b142b0870f17f56c3..2504e7180e63aced816277e701a9c7db0b99166d 100644
--- a/Modules/IO/IOGDAL/test/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Modules/IO/IOGDAL/test/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ otbGDALReadPxlComplex.cxx
 otbGDALImageIOTestCanRead.cxx
 otbMultiDatasetReadingInfo.cxx
 otbOGRVectorDataIOCanRead.cxx
+otbGDALImageIOImportExportMetadata.cxx
 )
 
 add_executable(otbIOGDALTestDriver ${OTBIOGDALTests})
@@ -128,6 +129,15 @@ otb_add_test(NAME ioTvGDALImageIOWriteMetadata COMMAND otbIOGDALTestDriver
   ${TEMP}/ioTvGDALImageIOWriteMetadata.hdr
   ${TEMP}/ioTvGDALImageIOWriteMetadata_Report.txt
   )
+  
+otb_add_test(NAME ioTvGDALImageIOImportExportMetadata_JPEG_99 COMMAND otbIOGDALTestDriver
+  --compare-ascii ${NOTOL} ${BASELINE_FILES}/ioTvGDALImageIOImportExportMetadata_JPEG_99.txt
+  ${TEMP}/ioTvGDALImageIOImportExportMetadata_JPEG_99.txt
+  otbGDALImageIOImportExportMetadata
+  ${INPUTDATA}/maur_rgb_24bpp.tif
+  ${TEMP}/ioTvGDALImageIOImportExportMetadata_JPEG_99.tif
+  ${TEMP}/ioTvGDALImageIOImportExportMetadata_JPEG_99.txt
+  )
 
 otb_add_test(NAME ioTvGDALOverviewsBuilder_TIFF COMMAND otbIOGDALTestDriver
   otbGDALOverviewsBuilder
diff --git a/Modules/IO/IOGDAL/test/otbGDALImageIOImportExportMetadata.cxx b/Modules/IO/IOGDAL/test/otbGDALImageIOImportExportMetadata.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..058af112b086ca62d592c673ca018f192c047898
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Modules/IO/IOGDAL/test/otbGDALImageIOImportExportMetadata.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2005-2020 Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
+ *
+ * This file is part of Orfeo Toolbox
+ *
+ *     https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+
+#include "itkMacro.h"
+#include <iostream>
+
+#include "otbGDALImageIO.h"
+
+//struct sGDALImageIO : public GDALImageIO
+//{
+//
+//};
+
+int otbGDALImageIOImportExportMetadata(int itkNotUsed(argc), char* argv[])
+{
+  // Verify the number of parameters in the command line
+  const char* inputFilename  = argv[1];
+  const char* outputFilename = argv[2];
+  const char* outputTextFilename = argv[3];
+
+  std::ofstream outfile(outputTextFilename);
+
+//  otb::sGDALImageIO::Pointer io = otb::sGDALImageIO::New();
+//  io->CanReadFile(inputFilename);
+//  io->ImportMetadata();
+//  outfile << io->m_Imd;
+//
+//  otb::sGDALImageIO::Pointer io2 = otb::sGDALImageIO::New();
+//  io2.CarWriteFile(outputFilename);
+//  io2->m_Imd = io->m_Imd;
+//  io2.ExportMetadata();
+  return 1;
+
+  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
+}
diff --git a/Modules/IO/IOGDAL/test/otbIOGDALTestDriver.cxx b/Modules/IO/IOGDAL/test/otbIOGDALTestDriver.cxx
index 04dd3d2846837d4296ca9106c21f52f1caa67c48..5458ac35a60dc97dea80a6f36e8b91db43066c6f 100644
--- a/Modules/IO/IOGDAL/test/otbIOGDALTestDriver.cxx
+++ b/Modules/IO/IOGDAL/test/otbIOGDALTestDriver.cxx
@@ -33,4 +33,5 @@ void RegisterTests()
   REGISTER_TEST(otbGDALImageIOTestCanRead);
   REGISTER_TEST(otbMultiDatasetReadingInfo);
   REGISTER_TEST(otbOGRVectorDataIOTestCanRead);
+  REGISTER_TEST(otbGDALImageIOImportExportMetadata);
 }