[seek-dev] gis files

Deana Pennington dpennington at lternet.edu
Mon Feb 16 14:33:30 PST 2004


Chad,

I think these files are the sample data that comes with Desktop GARP, 
and are in "native GARP format", whatever that is (binary something).  
It is transformed from the original GIS data, into something different.  
You should check with Ricardo to see when this happens in the 
pipeline...it might be the output from the scaling or presample 
routine.  Anyway, GRASS will not read it, as it is not a standard GIS 
format.  You'll have to work on different data.  I put some ESRI data 
that Town gave me up in my ftp site (grid_data.zip; I think you already 
got it).  If you want to fool around with something smaller to start 
with, I have also put some test data from Sevilleta up there 
(testdata.zip), also in ESRI format. 

ftp://ftp.lternet.edu/pub/outgoing/penningd

_ann files are "annual" climate layers, not anything to do with annotations.

I'm just now downloading GRASS, and will be tied up all day tomorrow in 
interviews.  Hopefully I will have some time to help you after that.

Deana


Chad Berkley wrote:

> hi ricardo and deana,
>
> I'm trying to get the layer data to load into GRASS.  I'm having 
> problems because it doesn't know what a .raw file is.  What format is 
> .raw?  is there some way to convert it to a different format?  how do 
> I enterpret the filenames of the garp test data?  I see that there are 
> _ann files which I think are annotations (vector files) and there is 
> one _dem file, which is probably raster information, but what are the 
> rest?
>
> Can you give me a description for each of these files:
>
>                  h_flowacc.raw  pre6190_ann.raw  vap6190_ann.raw
> DataPoints.txt   h_flowdir.raw  rad6190_ann.raw  wet6190_ann.raw
> frs6190_ann.raw  h_slope.raw    tmn6190_ann.raw  World.dxl
> h_aspect.raw     h_topoind.raw  tmp6190_ann.raw
> h_dem.raw        mask.raw       tmx6190_ann.raw
>
>
> Thanks,
> chad
>
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