Tag Archives: GDAL

Import MODIS data in GRASS using r.in.gdal

NASA offers access to its MODIS and ASTER data sets through Reverb|Echo. The data comes in HDF format and uses the Sinusoidal grid tiling system. If your gdal is compiled with HDF4 support (use ./configure –with-hdf4), you can use gdal, … Continue reading

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From multiple rasters to one Google earth layer

To create a Google earth map, I would normally export my raster layers as a geo-referenced png file and subsequently use maptiler (or gdal2tiles.py) to create the Google earth map (see here for more details). Because I want to create … Continue reading

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ESRI rasters in GRASS or QGIS

To exchange data one should preferably use a non-proprietary format, such as the ARC/INFO ASCII GRID or GeoTIFF. Unfortunately, it still happens that data is distributed in a proprietary binary format. One of the most widely used ones is the … Continue reading

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