[R-sig-Geo] MODIS download

[Els Ducheyne]

On mac you can use the gdal framework to mosaic, reproject and crop the modis data
very fast and efficient

On 27 Oct 2011, at 13:37, Matteo Mattiuzzi wrote:

> 
> Dear list, dear Babak
> 
> I recently created a package that also downloads Modis-grid data. I was
> waiting for the communication to the list until more tests have been
> absolved. But now test could now be made by interested people. The
> package works slightly different than the script of Babak, so I hope
> that we didn’t do the work totally twice. 
> The origin of the “getMODIS” package is also in Hengels (great thanks)
> code but the capabilities have been enhanced. 
> 
> The package has been tested with Linux and Windows 7 and it works fine,
> but tests are still going on! (At the moment wget is used for download
> the files so probably you have to install it first on your machine
> (thanks Pieter Beck for reminding me that)
> If you wish to use MRT capabilities you need to install it as well (+
> set the path to MRT!) 
> 
>> install.packages("getMODIS", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
> 
> The purpose of teh package is:
> - to get a local MODIS data archive (so only parts of the online pool)
> by simple subst. Everything what is available locally is not downloaded
> again! The main sub setting information is: Product, period and extent.
> The package can use objects from raster package, all raster* objects or
> the extent(raster*), or the “national boundaries” file (worldHires) from
> the mapdata package as extent information.
> 
> - to use MRT capabilites  
> 
> MRT is not fully implemented yet (tested only with geographic LatLon
> and UTM projection as output. My personal priority list can be modified
> by tester whishes).
> The manual can be downloaded here:
> http://www.wuala.com/MatteoMattiuzzi/getMODIS/
> A stepwise how to is missing yet, as soon as my time allows I’ll create
> it. 
> I’m happy for any feedback!
> Matteo Mattiuzzi
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