[GRASS-user] Global Land Cover Characterization data type

[Margherita Di Leo]

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Michael Spencer <michael_spencer at live.co.uk
> wrote:

>  Got the job done, thanks for all the pointers.
>
> Took location info from the readme file included in download (which is
> different to the online help). Used a lat-long on wgs84 projection.
>
> Imported via r.in.bin, and again included the details from readme file in
> bounds tab.
>
> Strikes me usgs made this a lot more difficult that it needed to be!
>

Maybe worth to be put in the wiki, could you be so kind?

Thank you!
madi

>
> Thanks again,
> Michael
>
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> http://edc2.usgs.gov/glcc/globdoc2_0.php#dataform
> says that data is in binary flat format, no header...
> I suppose that if you download in geographical lat long projection, and
> that you get the header info from:
> http://edc2.usgs.gov/glcc/globdoc2_0.php#geog
>
> then you should be able to set a new location from this info and import
> straight in GRASS with one of the generic binary input function (maybe in
> r.in.gdal, maybe another more specific.
>
> good luck and tell us how it went,
> Yann
>
>
> On 14 February 2013 18:02, Michael Spencer <michael_spencer at live.co.uk>wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
> Has anyone used the USGS Global Land Cover Characterization data available
> here?
>
> http://edc2.usgs.gov/glcc/globe_int.php
>
> Indication is that the file format is Erdas Imagine .img, but GRASS is coming
> back with a file type unknown error. Help/readme file suggests data is
> byte type, which leaves me none the wiser!
>
> Happy for any pointers.
>
> Ta,
> Michael
>
>
>
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