[Gdal-dev] L1G Landsat data

Stephan Holl sholl at gmx.net
Thu Feb 3 02:42:04 EST 2005


Hello Frank, 

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:27:50 -0500 Frank Warmerdam <fwarmerdam at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:49:31 +0100, Stephan Holl <sholl at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Thanks for answering.
> > 
> > Sure, you can download the data here:
> > ftp://ftp.glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/glcf/Landsat/WRS2/p141/\
> > r055/L71141055_05520010314.ETM-USGS.LPGS/
> > (should be in one line)
> > 
> > Thanks for looking into this.
>  
> Stephan,
> 
> Looking in the _HDF.L1G file there does not seem to be any
> georeferencing available.  I assume that is the file you are selecting
> to get the data?  

Exactly.

> 
> But the _MTL.L1G file does have various supporting metadata,
> including the product corners here:
> 
>     PRODUCT_UL_CORNER_LAT = 8.1775571   
>     PRODUCT_UL_CORNER_LON = 79.5875317  
>     PRODUCT_UR_CORNER_LAT = 8.1793694   
>     PRODUCT_UR_CORNER_LON = 81.7280759  
>     PRODUCT_LL_CORNER_LAT = 6.2812164   
>     PRODUCT_LL_CORNER_LON = 79.5934122  
>     PRODUCT_LR_CORNER_LAT = 6.2826047   
>     PRODUCT_LR_CORNER_LON = 81.7250438  
>     PRODUCT_UL_CORNER_MAPX = 344400.000  
>     PRODUCT_UL_CORNER_MAPY = 904200.000  
>     PRODUCT_UR_CORNER_MAPX = 580200.000  
>     PRODUCT_UR_CORNER_MAPY = 904200.000  
>     PRODUCT_LL_CORNER_MAPX = 344400.000  
>     PRODUCT_LL_CORNER_MAPY = 694500.000  
>     PRODUCT_LR_CORNER_MAPX = 580200.000  
>     PRODUCT_LR_CORNER_MAPY = 694500.000  
> ...
>   GROUP = PROJECTION_PARAMETERS 
>     REFERENCE_DATUM = "WGS84" 
>     REFERENCE_ELLIPSOID = "WGS84" 
>     GRID_CELL_SIZE_PAN = 15.000000
>     GRID_CELL_SIZE_THM = 60.000000
>     GRID_CELL_SIZE_REF = 30.000000
>     ORIENTATION = "NUP"
>     RESAMPLING_OPTION = "CC"
>     MAP_PROJECTION = "UTM"
>   END_GROUP = PROJECTION_PARAMETERS 
>   GROUP = UTM_PARAMETERS 
>     ZONE_NUMBER = 44
>   END_GROUP = UTM_PARAMETERS 

We found that too, but could not manage to use the coordinates.

Thanks for the new switch.

> 
> So if you use the current development version of GDAL you could assign
> a coordinate system and bounds something like this:
> 
> gdal_translate 'HDF4_SDS:UNKNOWN:"L71141055_05520010314_HDF.L1G":0'
> b10.tif -a_srs '+proj=utm +datum=WGS84 +zone=44' -a_ullr 344400 904200
> 580200 694500
> 
> With older versions you would need to associate the bounds bounds
> after the fact with a tiff world file, since the -a_ullr flag is very
> new. If you need to handle quite a few datasets, you could write a
> script to harvest required metadata from the _MTL file.  I'm sorry
> there is no full solution already implemented. 

btw, are there any thought about implement a full support for this
format?

Stephan


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