Re: Output to GeoTiff

On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Mary Haley wrote:

>
> Hi Tony,
>
> I don't personally have experience with this. We do have it on our
> to-do list to look into this format.
>
> Perhaps one of the ncl-talkers out there will be willing to share any
> success they've had?
>
> --Mary
>
>
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Tony.Conrad wrote:
>
>> Hello Again:
>>
>> One of the NCL FAQs addresses converting NCL graphics files to other
>> formats such as PNG using ImageMagick
>> ( http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/FAQ/#o_formats_002 ).
>>
>> ImageMagick does not do GeoTiff. Do you have a recommendation for
>> converting an NCL graphics file to a GeoTiff image?

Hi Tony,

Check out GDAL, specifically, the gdalwarp utility.

http://gdal.osgeo.org/

You can create the PNG file in NCL, then create a world file to describe
the extents of this file and then convert it to geotiff with gdalwarp.

daryl
Received on Mon Sep 29 2008 - 09:10:10 MDT