
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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