[gdal-dev] Converting coordinates/Projection

[Frank Warmerdam]

Gilbert Ferrara wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> I have a few satellite images in Latlon WGS84 and I need to convert it 
> to UTM (a specific Zone). What GDAL tool shall I use? GDAL_translate or 
> GDALWARP?

Gilbert,

To reproject an image gdalwarp is the appropriate tool.  If the image is
properly georeferenced already, it may be sufficient to do something like:


   gdalwarp -t_srs "+proj=utm +zone=11 +datum=WGS84" latlong.tif utm.tif

Best regards,
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