March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
584 pages
14h 31m
English
book
PostGIS Cookbook - Second Edition
by Stephen Vincent Mather, Pedro Wightman, Bborie Park, Thomas Kraft, Mayra Zurbarán, Paolo Corti
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How to do it...
On the command line, navigate to the MODIS directory:
> cd C:\postgis_cookbook\data\chap05\MODIS
In the MODIS directory, there should be several files. One of these files has the name srs.sql and contains the INSERT statement needed for the MODIS Sinusoidal projection. Run the INSERT statement:
> psql -d postgis_cookbook -f srs.sql
The main file has the extension HDF. Let's check the metadata of that HDF file:
> gdalinfo MYD09A1.A2012161.h08v05.005.2012170065756.hdf
When run, gdalinfo outputs a lot of information. We are looking for the list of subdatasets found in the Subdatasets section:
Subdatasets:
Each subdataset is ...