[Gdal-dev] georeferencing aster level 2 data

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:09:08 +0100, Vincent Schut <vincent at ecovla.nl> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I thought that gdalwarp was able to georeference aster level 2 data (the
> ast_09 on demand data from the eos data gateway), however, whatever I try, I
> can't get gdalwarp to recognize the corner coordinates (get an error saying
> that no gcp's were found). Any idea? Their are UPPERLEFT, UPPERRIGHT,
> LOWERLEFT and LOWERRIGHT metadata items in the hdf files (.hdf0 and .hdf1).
> 
> Of couse I can write a script that extract the corner coordinates, attaches
> them as gcp's to a vrt file, and warp this file, but if I could do this in
> one run using gdalwarp it would be much nicer.

Vincent,

If you point me to a sample file I can download, I can look at 
automatically translating the corners into GCPs.  I have recently
added automatic recognision for georeferencing data from other
specific products in GDALs HDF driver.

Best regards,
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