Daily Archives: November 7, 2012

Opening MODIS tiles in QGIS

Posted on November 7, 2012 by

NASA offers a very convenient web-based tool to select and download the tiles you need; Reverb / ECHO.  The tiles are in HDF format and use the Sinusoidal grid tiling system (proj4 definition: +proj=sinu +lon_0=0 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +a=6371007.181 +b=6371007.181 +units=m … Continue reading →

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