On Friday 29 May 2009 20:28:44 Phil Morefield wrote: > I did just a small amount of work with MODIS data, and never got around to > writing scripts. > But I found the HDF-EOS to GIS (HEG) tool to be very useful for converting > MODIS data to GeoTIFFs. > http://newsroom.gsfc.nasa.gov/sdptoolkit/HEG/HEGDownload.html
You can also use GDAL <http://gdal.org> to extract, reproject, crop and analyse the rasters. It has python bindings, so I guess it would fit nicely with whatever ESRI offers. I do all my work with python and gdal, with a bit of C thrown in for the parts that are slower to run. All of these are free software tools (meaning that you can install them wherever you want, however you want J -- RSU ■ Dept. of Geography ■ University College ■ Gower St, London WC1E 6BT UK EMM ■ Dept. of Geography ■ King's College ■ Strand, London WC2R 2LS UK
