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Mirone: MATLAB Tool Using GDAL

posted by Satri on Tuesday February 05, @06:41AM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the another-tool-in-the-toolbox dept.

A month ago PerryGeo discussed a free geodata manipulation software named Mirone especially useful to those who use MATLAB. From the Minore website: "Mirone is a Windows MATLAB-based framework tool that allows the display and manipulation of a large number of grid/images formats through its interface with the GDAL library. Its main purpose is to provide users with an easy-to-use graphical interface to manipulate GMT grids." For those with an interest in MATLAB, a look at Octave might be worthed.

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  by Hamish (352) on Tuesday February 12, @07:12AM (#2193)

  Hi,
  
  If the above doesn't float our boat (say you don't use MS Windows) here is a solution using GRASS GIS: import raster image into the GIS with r.in.gdal, and export to Matlab with the r.out.mat module.
  
  the commands would look like this:
  
    r.in.gdal input=map.tif output=map
    g.region rast=map
    r.out.mat input=map output=map.mat
  
  
  In the .mat file is saved things like the map's geographic bounds and resolution. Octave is fully supported if you prefer that to ML.
  
  Hamish
  

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