[Qgis-user] Modis projection (and not MERIS projection)

[Andre Joost]

Am 27.09.2013 12:28, schrieb Giacomo Fontanelli:
> Hello everybody
>
> I apologize because I have to point out two mistakes I made yesterday in my
> first mail called "MERIS projection" (it was late night and I was almost
> sleeping).
>
> The first mistake is that I work with MODIS and not MERIS.
>
> The second mistake is that the correct EPSG code for the MODIS projection
> is 6842, as shown in
> http://spatialreference.org/ref/sr-org/modis-sinusoidal/.
>
> EPSG:6842 is not available in QGIS 2.0, but there is EPSG:53008 (Sinusoidal
> spheric) that is almost the same
>
> EPSG:6842 = +proj=sinu +lon_0=0 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +a=6371007.181 +b=6371007.181
> +units=m +no_defs
> EPSG:53008= +proj=sinu +lon_0=0 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +a=6371007 +b=6371007
> +units=m +no_defs
>

Have a closer look: The first is SR-ORG:6842, and the second ESRI:53008.

So both not official EPSG code numbers.

Greetings,
André Joost