[GRASSLIST:8101] Re: AVHRR imagery into GRASS?

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 11:21:35PM +0200, Jeremy Stocks wrote:
> Anyone had success with importing this data format?

Yes. You have to preprocess them with 'gdalwarp' to apply
the GCPs. I highly recommend GDAL 1.3.0 for this.
Then r.in.gdal and the AVHRR data should be well imported.
Note that the precision depends on the NOAA satellite
number:

 http://www.gdal.org/frmt_l1b.html

>From NOAA-15 onwards the geocoding precision is much better.

Markus