Importing Lansat TM image

Dear Grassers,

I need some help to import a Landsat TM image to GRASS. I have this image in BIL format (Band
InterLeaved format) on floppy disks. I really don't know how to start processing these data in
GRASS. I have 4 bands (2, 3, 4 & 5), each two bands in one BIL file (i.e all two files). Also,
I have a header file for every digital file. An alternative way to do it, I am thinking, is using
ER Mapper 4.1 which could handle this format and I have an access to it.

Any clues would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Tarek Sadek

Ph.D. Student
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Vic. 3052
Australia

Tel: +03 344 7178
Fax: +03 344 6215

E-mail address: sadek@aqua.civag.unimelb.edu.au
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Dear Grassers,

I need some help to import a Landsat TM image to GRASS. I have this image in

BIL format (Band

InterLeaved format) on floppy disks. I really don't know how to start process

ing these data in

GRASS. I have 4 bands (2, 3, 4 & 5), each two bands in one BIL file (i.e all

two files). Also,

I have a header file for every digital file. An alternative way to do it, I a

m thinking, is using

ER Mapper 4.1 which could handle this format and I have an access to it.

Any clues would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Tarek Sadek

Ph.D. Student
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Vic. 3052
Australia

Tel: +03 344 7178
Fax: +03 344 6215

E-mail address: sadek@aqua.civag.unimelb.edu.au
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Dear Tarek

        I've been bringing a lot of tm images into grass lately and I've
found it easiest just to copy the raw data file into your cell directory then
write a header in cellhd. r.support will give range, histogram, and a
cats file. If you have ERMapper, seperate the band interweave into
seperate files. If you store the ER headers with the files in cell, ER
and GRASS will both be able to access them without any further conversion.
Good luck.

Dana Slaymaker
Dept of Foerestry and Wildlife Management
University of Mass.