[GRASS-user] Re: Landsat data archive now free

[Richard Chirgwin]

Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 3:08 AM, Richard Chirgwin
> <rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
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>>> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:13:36 +0000
>>> From: Corrado <ct529 at york.ac.uk>
>>> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] LANDSAT data archive now free
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>>> Dear grasslings,
>>>
>>> I was not able to understand whether there was any information provided with
>>> the images, or only the images.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> I have this dreadful feeling I'm going to expose my essential thickness
>> here but ...
>>
>> It provides TIFFs and metadata in text files; is there an easy way to
>> use these to import directly into a suitable location, or do I have to
>> import-and-rectify?
>>     
>
> Can you point me to an example URL to see those data?
>
> Markus
>
>   
The starting URL is http://glovis.usgs.gov/

This opens a popup viewer where you select the tiles and download the
data (huge files).

(PS, thanks Yann for the instructions - trying them now).

Cheers,
Richard