[GRASS-user] GRASS & MODIS data (both L2 and L3)

[Maciej Sieczka]

Ivan Shmakov wrote:
>>>>>> "JG" == Jose Gomez-Dans <jgomezdans at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> 	Looks like I've mistyped the Subject:.  Actually, I'm interested
> 	in *both* Level 2 (scan-wise) and Level 3 (sinusoidal
> 	projection) MODIS data.
> 
> [...]
> 
>  > I use a lot of MODIS data (all levels essentially). Rather than using
>  > the HEGTools, I have written a small python script that uses GDAL
>  > (and Markus Neteler's notes on how to reproject MODIS data)
> 
> 	I. e.:
> 
> http://mpa.itc.it/markus/useful/modis_hdf2erdas_ll_wgs84.sh
> 
> 	I seem not to understand the hack (why +ellps=sphere in
> 	-t_srs?), but it, indeed, works.

This is related I guess:
http://proj.maptools.org/faq.html#sphere_as_wgs84

Maciek