[GRASS-user] reading landsat 2 images

[Michael Barton]

On Mar 7, 2008, at 10:00 AM, grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:

> Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:54:53 +0100
> From: Francisco Alonso Sarr?a <alonsarp at um.es>
> Subject: [GRASS-user] reading landsat 2 images
> To: grassuser at grass.itc.it
> Message-ID: <1204898093.6436.12.camel at geodebian.mur.um.es>
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> Hi:
>
> I have to read old landsat-2 image files. They come as a 1 BIL file  
> with
> 3600 cols and 2945 rows, but the total size is 34564320 bytes (I think
> it has a header and may be some of the bands are compressed because  
> they
> have less than 8 bits radiometric resolution.
>
> Does anyone know any program that can read it and convert to anything
> gdal could deal with?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> PAco

GRASS will read this. Use r.in.bin.

Multispec, Hypercube, and ImageJ will also read it, to name some other  
open source packages.

Michael