[gdal-dev] Covert MODIS Land Temperatures Sinusoidal to Lat Lon

Etienne Tourigny etourigny.dev at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 11:02:38 EST 2011


Thant works for me too.

A related question, does anyone know of an EPSG code to match this
sinusoidal projection used by MODIS?

Etienne

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Vincent Schut <schut at sarvision.nl> wrote:
> On 11/30/2011 03:41 PM, elliott wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have been searching for a way to convert the MODIS Land Temperature data
>> that is in a sinusoidal projection into WSG84 lat/lon but have not found any
>> definitive answers.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> I've been using this gdalwarp line, though for modis land spectral data and
> not temperature:
>
> gdalwarp -s_srs '+proj=sinu +R=6371007.181 +nadgrids=@null +wktext' -t_srs
> EPSG:4326 -srcnodata 0 -dstnodata 0 -r cubic -co "TILED=YES" -co "TFW=YES"
>  ${INFILE} ${OUTFILE}
>
> nb it's from a bash script so change the INFILE and OUTFILE stuff, and if
> you want to you can remove the -co tiled and tfw creation options.
> ymmv.
>
> Vincent.
>
>
>>
>> Thanks!
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