GIS and Remote Sensing Unit at FEM-CRI

pyModis

pyModis is a Free and Open Source Python library to work with MODIS data. It has several features: it is very useful for downloading large numbers of MODIS HDF/XML files and for using this in a cron job for automated continuous updating. it can parse the XML file to obtain information about the HDF files it can convert a HDF MODIS file to a GEOTIF file using MODIS Reprojection Tool it can create a mosaic of several tiles using MODIS Reprojection Tool and create the xml metadata file with the information of all tiles used in mosaic

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Prerequsities

pyModis requires Python, which comes preinstalled on most Unix machines. 
Otherwise, you can download Python from here

Installation

After you have downloaded the source code from our repository you have to decompress the archive. Then you enter into the new directory and launch, as administrator, setup.py with the install option.

You can find more info in the INSTALL file included in the package.

How to use the library

Together with pyModis library, we distribute several scripts that allows you to use the libraries and perform the data download and conversion. The scripts released are:

- modis_download.py

- modis_parse.py  (from version 0.5.0)

- modis_multiparse.py  (from version 0.5.0)

- modis_mosaic.py (from version 0.5.0)

- modis_convert.py (from version 0.5.0)

License

pyModis is released under GNU General Public License, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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