[GRASS-SVN] r66689 - in grass-addons/grass7/raster/r.modis: r.modis.download r.modis.import

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Sat Oct 31 09:33:38 PDT 2015


Author: neteler
Date: 2015-10-31 09:33:38 -0700 (Sat, 31 Oct 2015)
New Revision: 66689

Modified:
   grass-addons/grass7/raster/r.modis/r.modis.download/r.modis.download.html
   grass-addons/grass7/raster/r.modis/r.modis.import/r.modis.import.html
Log:
r.modis.* addon manuals: English fixes, clarifications

Modified: grass-addons/grass7/raster/r.modis/r.modis.download/r.modis.download.html
===================================================================
--- grass-addons/grass7/raster/r.modis/r.modis.download/r.modis.download.html	2015-10-31 16:23:04 UTC (rev 66688)
+++ grass-addons/grass7/raster/r.modis/r.modis.download/r.modis.download.html	2015-10-31 16:33:38 UTC (rev 66689)
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 <h2>NOTE</h2>
 
+<!-- isn't FTP outdated? Then remove here -->
 The connection to the FTP data site requires a default login.
 To set the username and password options the user has to use
 the <em>setting</em> option; a file can be used (in this case the first
@@ -15,23 +16,24 @@
   your_NASA_FTP_username
   your_NASA_FTP_password
 </pre></div>
-As alternative, the user can pass the values from standard input.
+As an alternative, the user can pass the values from standard input.
 <p>
-From 2013 NASA use HTTP protocol for some of the MODIS repositories so
-the password it is no more necessary. If you are sure about the protocol
-you can escape to set the password.
+Since 2013 NASA switched to the HTTP protocol for some of the MODIS repositories,
+so the password it is no more necessary. If you are sure that for the product
+of interest the HTTP protocol is used, you can skip to set the password.
 <p>
 
-<b>Warning</b>: The NASA policy does not permit to open more then ten
-connections in parallel with their FTP server. Hence no more than ten
-process of <em>r.modis.download</em> should run at the same time.
+<b>Warning</b>: As per NASA policy not more than ten simultaneous connections
+are permitted in parallel with their server. Hence no more than ten processes
+of <em>r.modis.download</em> should run at the same time to avoid that your
+actual IP address gets blacklisted.
 <p>
-By default the downloaded files are stored in the path where the setting
+By default, the downloaded files are stored in the path where the setting
 file is saved. The user can change this directory with <em>folder</em>
 option. The user has to set the <em>folder</em> option if
 user and password are sent by standard input.
 <p>
-The time for the download depends on the number of requested tiles, days
+The needed time for the download depends on the number of requested tiles, days
 and the type of the MODIS product. For example, the NDVI product ranges 
 from 5 MB to 270 MB and the LST product ranges from 2 MB to 21 MB.
 
@@ -45,26 +47,26 @@
 
 Reading the user and password options from file:
 <div class="code"><pre>
-r.modis.download setting=/home/user/.grass7/r.modis/SETTING
+r.modis.download setting=$HOME/.grass7/r.modis/SETTING
 </pre></div>
 
 To download LST Terra product using the default options and changing
 the starting and ending dates to custom values:
 <div class="code"><pre>
-r.modis.download setting=/home/user/.grass7/r.modis/SETTING startday=2011-05-01 endday=2011-05-31
+r.modis.download setting=$HOME/.grass7/r.modis/SETTING startday=2011-05-01 endday=2011-05-31
 </pre></div>
 
 To download another product (for example <em>Snow eight days 500 m</em>),
 with other default options:
 <div class="code"><pre>
-r.modis.download setting=/home/user/.grass7/r.modis/SETTING product=snow_terra_eight_500
+r.modis.download setting=$HOME/.grass7/r.modis/SETTING product=snow_terra_eight_500
 </pre></div>
 
 To use <em>r.modis.download</em> in a script with one of the other module
 the user has to set the <em>-g</em> flag to return the name of the file
 containing a list of downloaded HDF names:
 <div class="code"><pre>
-r.modis.download -g setting=/home/user/.grass7/r.modis/SETTING startday=2011-05-01 endday=2011-05-31
+r.modis.download -g setting=$HOME/.grass7/r.modis/SETTING startday=2011-05-01 endday=2011-05-31
 </pre></div>
 
 <h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
@@ -73,10 +75,10 @@
 <a href="r.modis.import.html">r.modis.import</a>
 <!-- <a href="r.modis.process.html">r.modis.process</a>,-->
 </em>
-<a href="https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/lpdaac/products/modis_overview">Map of MODIS Land products' Sinusoidal grid tiling system</a> 
+<a href="https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/dataset_discovery/modis">Map of MODIS Land products' Sinusoidal grid tiling system</a> 
 
 <h2>AUTHOR</h2>
 
-Luca Delucchi, Google Summer of Code 2011
+Luca Delucchi, Google Summer of Code 2011; subsequently updated.
 
 <p><i>Last changed: $Date$</i>

Modified: grass-addons/grass7/raster/r.modis/r.modis.import/r.modis.import.html
===================================================================
--- grass-addons/grass7/raster/r.modis/r.modis.import/r.modis.import.html	2015-10-31 16:23:04 UTC (rev 66688)
+++ grass-addons/grass7/raster/r.modis/r.modis.import/r.modis.import.html	2015-10-31 16:33:38 UTC (rev 66689)
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 <h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
 
-<em>r.modis.import</em> import into GRASS GIS Level 3 MODIS product.
+<em>r.modis.import</em> import Level 3 MODIS product into GRASS GIS.
 
 <h2>NOTE</h2>
 
 The input file is given as list of full paths to the MODIS HDF files,
 one per line. The input file(s) have to be inside the folder where
 the HDF files are stored.
-<b>If <em>mrtpath</em> is not used pyModis will use GDAL to convert HDF
-files to TIF.</b>
+<b>If <em>mrtpath</em> is not used, pyModis will use GDAL to convert HDF
+files to TIF (which is faster).</b>
 <p>
 The <em>mrtpath</em> option is the path to the main folder of the
 MODIS Reprojection Tools (MRT) binaries, i.e. the folder which contains
@@ -74,10 +74,10 @@
 <a href="r.modis.download.html">r.modis.download</a>
 <!-- <a href="r.modis.process.html">r.modis.process</a>,-->
 </em><br>
-<a href="https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/lpdaac/tools/modis_reprojection_tool">MODIS Reprojection Tool</a>
+<a href="https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/dataset_discovery/modis">Map of MODIS Land products' Sinusoidal grid tiling system</a> 
 
 <h2>AUTHOR</h2>
 
-Luca Delucchi, Google Summer of Code 2011
+Luca Delucchi, Google Summer of Code 2011; subsequently updated.
 
 <p><i>Last changed: $Date$</i>



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