[GRASS-user] r.out.gdal outputs incorrect projection file

[Bill Hudspeth]

Hello,

I have used r.out.gdal (GRASS 6.0.1) to import a number of geotiffs into
a GRASS location that is GCS (e.g. Projection 3 - Latitude, Longitude),
with the WGS84 datum. Both the location, and the geotiffs, are in that
coordinate system so that I can easily import without having to use the
-o argument. When I export the files as an AAIGrid, Uint16 ascii file, a
projection file is generated with the following information:


PROJCS["Sinusoidal(Sanson-Flamsteed)",GEOGCS["Unknown",DATUM["D_unknown",SPHEROID["Unknown",6378137,"inf"]],
PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]],PROJECTION["Sinusoidal"],PARAMETER["longitude_of_center",0],
PARAMETER["false_easting",0],PARAMETER["false_northing",0],UNIT["meters",1]]

Why is it showing the projection as Sinusoidal?

Thanks, William