[Gdal-dev] Question about gdal and ENVI.

[Frank Warmerdam]

Ken Sewell wrote:
> I'm trying to use gdal to translate imagery generated by ENVI 4.0, but I'm
> encountering some issues I don't quite understand.  First if I run
> gdalinfo on my envi file, it says the Cordinate system is:
> LOCAL_CS["Geographic Lat/Lon",
>     UNIT["Meter",1]]
> 
> If I use envi to save it as a geotiff then the Cordinate system is:
> GEOGCS["WGS 84",
>     DATUM["WGS_1984",
> ...
> 
>>From what I found on the mailing lists LOCAL_CS basically means GDAL
> doesn't understand the projection, is this correct?
> 
> Does anyone know why this would happen?

Ken,

Correct, this means the georeferencing was not understood. I believe the
coordinate system implementation in the GDAL ENVI driver is pretty poor.
Can you provide the envi header file?

Best regards,
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