
Hi all,

I thought that this might be of interest. I have spent few days on trying to automate donwload and resampling of MODIS products (under windows machines). The instructions and a sample script is available here:

http://spatial-analyst.net/wiki/index.php?title=Download_and_resampling_of_MODIS_images

I had few problems with establishing the ftp connection via R, then listing the remote folders etc. But this is all now more or less solved (with the help of the Rcurl package and wget.exe). Let me know if you experience problems/bugs with running the same type of processing for your case study.

MODIS products are an excellent source of remote sensing data for regional and continental scale research. One of the reasons why they have been under-used by environmental/GIS groups is because the projections system (Sinusoidal) and the format of the data (HDF) is rather uncommon (at least not supported by proj4/GDAL). This script tries to diminishes this gap.

yours,

Tom Hengl
http://spatial-analyst.net   

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