[gdal-dev] gdal file conversions

[Frank Warmerdam]

LeRetha Childress wrote:
> I am using NDFD .bin files such as ds.mint.bin. Is there a way to 
> convert them to a text format that would include coordinate information 
> as well as the data values?
> 
> I have been able to get a grid of temps with
> 
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> gdal_translate  -of AAIGrid –b 1 ds.mint.bin outputfile
> 
>  
> 
> but I would like to be able to create a file that shows lat long values 
> along with the temps.

LeRetha,

The gdal2xyz.py script will write out a file with "x y pixelvalue", one per
line in a text file.  It lives in swig/python/samples in the GDAL 1.5 source
tree and may be installed if you have Python enabled.

Best regards,
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