[FWTools] Intro and just getting started

[Frank Harris]

Roger,

I see my problem; wasn't an FWTools problem but a Linux newb problem.
I followed the directions too closely; I don't have FWTools installed
in my home directory but in a group one.  I changed the path in my
bash profile, and it seems that it works.  I need to go for today, but
it seems like my problem is solved; I'll try it tomorrow morning and
let you know for sure.  Thanks for your quick response!

- Frank

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Roger André <randre at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Frank,
> gdal_translate doc can be found here
> - http://www.gdal.org/gdal_translate.html.
> If the tool isn't being found, there must be something wrong with your
> install path. Are you sure if you do an "echo $PATH" that the
> "FWTools/bin_safe" dir is showing up?
> Roger
> --
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Frank Harris <phrankharris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm an intern at NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, doing image
>> processing work on level-2 MODIS data.  Until now I've been using
>> ENVI+IDL to try and write an automated script for running
>> reprojections on it.  However, just now, my mentor decided I should
>> change to using the MODIS Reprojection Tool for reprojection and GDAL
>> for changing the format and separating bands.  My session is over in
>> two weeks, so this is a bit of a monkey in the works.
>>
>> My primary processing machine is a small server running Red Hat 4.  So
>> far, I've managed to get FWTools installed on it using the
>> instructions listed on the FWTools website; unzipping, running
>> install.sh and adding the PATH to my bash profile.  My big question
>> is, now what?  I would like to use the gdal_translate function, but I
>> can't find any man pages or documentation, and the gdal_translate
>> command is not found.
>>
>> Thanks so much for your help!
>>
>> - Frank
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