[gdal-dev] MODIS Cloud Mask reprojection

Stefan Keller sfkeller at gmail.com
Sat Apr 27 17:30:34 PDT 2013


Hi Rutger

Many thanks for your answer.
I would like to do the processing of this nice NASA product entirely in
GDAL and Python.
Do you als have hints (code snippets) to achieve this?

Yours,
Stefan



2013/4/26 Rutger <kassies at gmail.com>

> Hey Stefan,
>
> You indeed need to use MRT Swath (or one of the alternatives i mentioned to
> Laura, but i would start with MRT Swath), which also means you need the
> appropriate MOD03 file for the geolocation arrays. Looking at the meta data
> is should be this one:
> MOD03.A2013112.1055.005.2013112115237.NRT.hdf
>
> The information is encoded using bitflags. So some post processing is
> needed
> after extracting the bands. A lot of Remote Sensing software can do such
> 'bitwise' operations, but any programming language as well, so reading the
> data with GDAL in for example Python would also work.
>
>
> Regards,
> Rutger
>
>
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