On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:35 AM, katrin eggert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Markus and the rest of the people > >> The files in the indicated FTP directory are in a different >> file format. >> If you look at the .hdr files therein, you'll find the metadata easily. >> They are in ASCII format, too. >> > But the code refers to a *.met file right?
Right. > So I was not "reading" the code wrong. So I just need to substitute *.met > for the new metadata? Unfortunately not since the format (i.e. keywords) is different. You would need to write a parsing script (shell, Python, etc). Trick: open the file and read it :) If you don't need to import many files, the manual composition of the METASTRING variable will take you only few minutes at most. >> > I need to import Landsat-7 image with all that information... >> >> r.in.gdal should be able to import these data without problems. >> > But r.in.gdal only imports the data not the metadata. Right? Right. >> > Even at NC_SPM landsat dataset, onlyu 2002 has Metadata information. >> > 1987 doesn't have that. >> >> Unfortunately various formats are used... But luckily most (all?) are >> understood >> by GDAL, so r.in.gdal should do the job. You can also obtain metadata >> information >> with >> gdalinfo filename >> > And how can I automatically incorporate the metadata, specially from a > external file, into imported file? You can use r.support for that: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/r.support.html r.support mapname history="$METASTRING" Hope this helps, Markus -- http://gis.ambiente.fmach.it/ _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
