[Geotiff] Conversion from lat/long to PCS to raster

Fernando Cacciola fernando.cacciola at gmail.com
Fri Jan 21 13:08:13 PST 2011


On 1/21/2011 5:39 PM, noelkhan wrote:
>
> Fernando,
>
> So long as you can get the tie-point and scale info, you probably could use
> gdal or libtiff to convert from PCS to Raster space

Right

> (you would have to
> convert LAT/LON to PCS yourself;

Which is precisely the part I'm missing now :)


> Conceptually:
>
> 1. Convert LAT/LON to UTM to get (Xm,Ym) [see:
> http://www.rcn.montana.edu/resources/tools/coordinates.aspx]
>
Thanks.. I needed thsi bit of theory in fact,


The second part I knew already (though I prefer to let libgeotiff do that for me)

Best

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