On 05/24/2015 08:02 PM, Joe Lertola wrote: > Hello, > -Joe > > > > I would like to download Nasa’s Visible Earth images then load them into Qgis > and then use the Clipper command to clip out rectangular portions with > specific latitude/longitude boundaries. The Nasa images are available here: > http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=74218. The problem I am having is > that the images come into Qgis without the proper geographic coordinates. The > Nasa documentation says that the images are in the Plate Carree projection > and the projection datum is WGS84. But with my very limited knowledge of map > projections I do not know how to set this up in Qgis so that the images will > be positioned properly and use decimal degrees as their units. Any help would > be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > -Joe >
EPSG:4326 WGS 84 is the projection to pick when loading the data. If you happen to download all of them you can also make a GDAL VRT to load everything as if it's one layer. Enjoy, Alex _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
