[Gdal-dev] Sinusoidal projection for MODIS images with OGR

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 10:58:14AM +0400, Andrey Kiselev wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 06:13:10PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:41:31PM -0400, Ben Discoe wrote:
> > > 
> > > Well, if the images are in a normal sinusoidal (SIN), then we don't
> > > need the MODIS reproject tool at all, we can just use GDAL :-)
> > 
> > Mhhh, for me it doesn't work (yesterday's CVS version). Trying on 
> > "MODIS/Terra Land Surface Temperature/Emissivity Daily L3 Global 1km SIN Grid":
> > 
> > gdalinfo MOD11A1.A2000055.h18v04.004.2002355023354.hdf
> > Driver: HDF4/Hierarchical Data Format Release 4
> 
> Markus,
> 
> This is not supported directly by the HDF driver yet. I'm working to
> improve the driver as I promised before. I think Ben uses world file to
> specify corner coordinates and -a_srs option to set an input projection
> for his JPEGs. But HDF driver doesn't support world files, so individual
> subdatasets should be converted in other format (TIFF) if you want to do
> so.

... so MRT is my friend for now, the GDAL for the resulting GeoTIFF :-)
I'll stay tuned as usual for HDF updates.

Best

 Markus