[GRASSLIST:4288] Re: more gdal help!

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 03:26:33AM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> Kevin Slover wrote:
> 
> > I am not sure, of course, what the usefullness of the r.composite tool.  It
> > fails to correctly display the image I was shooting for.  I know in other
> > programs (manifold) that you use a composite type function to piece together
> > the rgb values.
> 
> The purpose of r.composite was to counter the complaints which arose
> when I removed the composite map generation functionality from several
> programs (e.g. d.his, r.in.*).
> 
> Some people seemed to want that functionality, although I still
> haven't discovered why.

... eg. to put RGB composed images onto the web:
MODIS/TERRA remote sensing
http://mpa.itc.it/rs/
(work in progress)

I'm a happy user of r.composite :-)

Best,

 Markus Neteler