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Happy New Millenium to all Idrisians!

Here comes all responses (in entirety) to my request on how to import 
GeoTIFF data into Idrisi. Thanks Tammy, Pedro, Peter and Gary!  I have only 
tried to use the approach/tool offered by Tammy Woodard which "works"; I 
use BILIDRIS upon the GeoTIFF image, and this works out with the 
exception that left and right part of the image is switched....

I include the other answers so that others may proceed testing/using them.

Regards

Sindre
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Dr. Sindre Langaas
UNEP/GRID-Arendal
c/o Div. of Land and Water Resources
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: +46-8-7908612
Telefax: +46-8-4110775



Original request:
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Idrisians,

I have received a Landsat 7 ETM data set in GeoTIFF format.
I have as yet not found a way to import this format, neither in the nice
way (i.e., a correct importing also of the meta-data), nor a method to
strip off the header info since BIPIDRIS, BILIDRIS & PARE do not accept
headers > 32,6K and the GeoTIFF header is > 68K.  

Suggestions, please!

Regards

Sindre Langaas

Response 1
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Date sent:              Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:00:05 -0500
From:                   Tammy Woodard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:                RE: GeoTIFF importing?
To:                     Sindre Langaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Sindre,

The new impexp.dll will be sent to everyone on the CD that is the first
service release.  This is planned to be sent out around new years.  If
anyone specifically needs it sooner than that, we can send it to them.

Tammy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sindre Langaas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 2:47 AM
> To: Tammy Woodard
> Subject: Re: GeoTIFF importing?
>
>
> Tammy,
>
> thanks - I am using Idrisi32.
>
> Unfortunately I will not be in office until next Monday.
> Then I will test it out.
> If it seems it to work well, I would like to send out a
> Summary:-posting to Idrisi-l about the solution (for BILIDRIS, BIPIDRIS
> & PARE) telling about the fix you've made. I am convinced that more than
> me would be interested in getting hold of impexp.dll
>
> Thus, how would you like me to announce the new impexp.dll. Or
> preferably, why don't you send your answer to me to Idrisi-l and tell
> people where to download it.
>
> Finally, congratulations to Ron and all other staff for a great new
> version of Idrisi.
>
> Cheers
>
> Sindre
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Tammy Woodard wrote:
> >
> > Sindre,
> >
> > I'm going to assume that you are working with IDRISI32.
> >
> > I looked into the problem you mentioned for BILIDRIS, BIPIDRIS
> & PARE.  The
> > modules themselves could accept headers up to 2147483647 bytes
> long, but the
> > error checking that goes with the form (and macro) was overzealous &
> > was limiting it to 32767.  I fixed the limits in the error checking
> > and have attached a new DLL for you to this e-mail.  The impexp.dll is
> zipped up with
> > WINZIP.  Please unzip it into the C:\idrisi32\extensions
> directory (This is
> > assuming that your idrisi program is in c:\idrisi32.  If it's
> not, put it in
> > the extensions subdirectory of your program directory.)  It
> will replace the
> > previous impexp.dll.  This DLL contains the interfaces for the
> import export
> > modules.
> >
> > Sorry for the inconvenience.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Tammy Woodard
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Sindre Langaas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 10:52 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: GeoTIFF importing?
> > >
> > >
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> > > Idrisians,
> > >
> > > I have received a Landsat 7 ETM data set in GeoTIFF format.
> > > I have as yet not found a way to import this format, neither in the
> > > nice way (i.e., a correct importing also of the meta-data), nor a
> > > method to strip off the header info since BIPIDRIS, BILIDRIS & PARE
> > > do not accept headers > 32,6K and the GeoTIFF header is > 68K.
> > >
> > > Suggestions, please!
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Sindre Langaas

Response 2
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Date sent:              Fri, 17 Dec 1999 16:38:25 +0000
From:                   Pedro Pereira Goncalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization:           inovaGIS Project
To:                     Sindre Langaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Copies to:              [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:                Re: GeoTIFF importing?

Sindre Langaas wrote:

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> Idrisians,
>
> I have received a Landsat 7 ETM data set in GeoTIFF format.
> I have as yet not found a way to import this format, neither in the nice
> way (i.e., a correct importing also of the meta-data), nor a method to
> strip off the header info since BIPIDRIS, BILIDRIS & PARE do not accept
> headers > 32,6K and the GeoTIFF header is > 68K.
>
> Suggestions, please!
> Regards
>

Hi,
First you have to get the information in the Geotiff tags. To do this you
can use the listgeo.exe available in at
ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/geotiff/libgeotiff/ ( for WinNT is the
geotiff_bin_111_nt.zip, but you have also the IRIX and LINUX versions). I
think that this was compiled by Frank Warmerdam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
and
the source code is available. This program (listgeo.exe) will give you all
the geographic tags present in the Geotiff file.

Then you have to convert the tiff file to some kind of tiff format that
IDRISI reads. From my experience with the previous version of IDRISI it
worked well in the Tiff format that Adobe Photoshop produces (no
Thumbnail,  no LZW compression and IBM-PC byte order) I do remember that
IDRISI didn't like the tiff from Paint Shop, but I dont know how the new
version reacts to them :)

After the tiff conversion all you have to do is use tifidris and then add
to the doc file the geographic tags that you take from the listgeo.exe

Hope this helps,

Pedro
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Pedro Pereira Goncalves
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inovaGIS Project
http://www.inovagis.org/



Response 3
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Date sent:              Fri, 17 Dec 1999 13:15:36 -0500
From:                   Peter Schlesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:                GeoTIFF importing?
To:                     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization:           Woods Hole Research Center

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The tiff utils can be downloaded also at:
http://www.powerup.com.au/~lornew/tiffutil.html.

Peter S.


Response 4
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From:                   Tech Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:                     'Sindre Langaas' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:                RE: GeoTIFF importing?
Date sent:              Tue, 14 Dec 1999 12:31:16 -0500

Dear Sindre,

>From what I understand about this format, the TIFF is a variant
subformat not supported by Idrisi for Windows Version 2. I believe it's
a 16 bit compressed TIF. IfWv2 only imports 8-bit uncompressed TIFs. You
can convert the TIF to an importable format using a number of graphics
packages. In fact, there is a shareware package named THUMBS that is
avaialable for a 30 day trial for free from the web...
http://www.cerious.com.  I've used this myself for this same operation.

Let me know whether or not this works...
Thanks!

-Gary Votour
 Clark Labs Cuustomer Suupport

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