New to grass -- a couple of questions

[Michel Wurtz - ENGEES/CEREG]

"Eric G . Miller" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 04:47:17PM -0600, Stephen Griffiths wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am new to Grass so please forgive to simple nature of my questions.
> >
> > I have been trying to read my DEMs and Ortho images into grass.  I have
> > used "r.in.bin".  This has worked fine if the data is in an 8bit
> > unsigned binary format -- thats ok for the image, but not the DEM.  How
> > can I read the DEM in as 16bit unsigned or even better 32bit float?  My
> > DEM's are all in 32bit float flat binary raster format.  I really do not
> > want to convert them to some other format first.
> 
> I don't see any way around it ;( Wouldn't be hard to convert to ascii
> and then use r.in.ascii.

Maybe the opportunity to update r.in.bin for Grass5.0 (I know that
reading floats that are not generated on the same processor may be
non trivial :-) ?

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