[GRASS-user] Re: Unable to open gridded data

[Hermann Peifer]

> Illegal line in header
> ncols:         180

My guess would be that the colon is the culprit. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESRI_grid


Hermann

-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Unable to open gridded data
From: Muhammad Rahiz <muhammad.rahiz at ouce.ox.ac.uk>
To: 
Date: 11/12/2009 10:07

> Dear GRASS-users,
> 
> I'm new to GRASS although I'm not new to GIS. I can't seem to be able to 
> load my gridded data into GRASS using r.in.arc.
> 
> The following error message appears
> 
> Illegal line in header
> ncols:         180
> "yllcorner" field missing from header
> "xllcorner" field missing from header
> "nrows" field missing from header
> "ncols" field missing from header
> "cellsize" field missing from header
> "nodata_value" field missing from header
> ERROR: Can't get cell header
> 
> The following is how the format  of the header of my gridded data looks 
> like;
> 
> ncols         180
> nrows         290
> xllcorner     -200000
> yllcorner     -200000
> cellsize      5000
> NODATA_value  -9999
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Muhammad
>