On the subject of reading in imagery in weird formats:
What do you GRASS users do??? For instance, we have old Landsat MSS imagery
in the horrible "band-interleaved-by-pixel-pairs" format, where
line one contains
band1,line1,pixel1; band1,line1,pixel2; band2,line1,pixel1; band2,line1,pixel2; band3,line1,pixel1; band3,line1,pixel2; band4,line1,pixel1; band4,line1,pixel2; band1,line1,pixel3; band1,line1,pixel4; band2,line1,pixel3; band2,line1,pixel4;
...
band3,line1,pixeln; band3,line1,pixelm; band4,line1,pixeln; band4,line1,pixelm
Isn't that ridiculous? So, what do you do? I have to reformat this stuff in IDIMS (an image processing package), taking several steps to do so.
Any other suggestions?
---Cleavy L. McKnight
Department of Geology
Baylor University
cleavy2@earthlogic.baylor.edu