ERDAS .LAN import

Hi,
I have an ERDAS .LAN (TM image) raster file. I was given the description
for the file format:

128 bytes header

949 rows x 795 cols for the 7 bands (BIL format)

And I tried to write some quick'n'dirty code to extract one band at a time
(for a start). It didn't work.
However, I tend to think that there is something missing to the info I
had, mainly because the size of the .LAN file is bigger than
949x795x7+128. I must be missing some CR/NL here and there (at least).
Is there somebody else who has played around with ERDAS who can give me
more accurate information ?

Thank you.

          Andrea Giacomelli
          andreag@idra1.iar.polimi.it

Andrea Giacomelli (andreag@idra1.iar.polimi.it) writes on 9 May 94:

I have an ERDAS .LAN (TM image) raster file. I was given the description

128 bytes header

949 rows x 795 cols for the 7 bands (BIL format)

I recently imported an ERDAS 7.3 file (created by Multispec, a remote
sensing package for Macintrashes) into GRASS. Here's what I did:

% mkdir $LOCATION/erdas
% mv flc1 $LOCATION/erdas
% dd if=$LOCATION/erdas/flc1 of=$LOCATION/erdas/stripped ibs=128 skip=1
% cd $LOCATION/erdas
% i.tape.other # using $LOCATION/erdas/stripped as input, with no
               # extra skips made.

This worked perfectly. I couldn't get the *in.erdas command(s?) to work
nor could I get i.tape.other to skip over the header (not sure why,
though).

--Darrell

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