<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam@pobox.com></I></B> wrote:
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<P>On 11/6/05, Billy Jordan <BILLULSTER@YAHOO.COM>wrote:<BR>><BR>> Hi,<BR>><BR>> I have downloded a DEM image from USGS site in geotiff format. The data type<BR>> is in floating point(32 bits/ sample) or IEEE floating point. I could read<BR>> this image using ERDAS but I need to read it using Matlab. Matlab gives<BR>> error that couldnt read more than 16 bits per sample!!!!<BR>> It is so important and I would appreciate any comments<BR><BR>Bill,<BR><BR>As you can imagine, it is hard for any of us to "fix" Matlab.<BR>What you could do is use some other tool to convert the<BR>data into 16bit integer format. For instance, at the FWTools<BR>command shell you could enter a command like:<BR><BR>gdal_translate -ot Int16 in.tif out.tif<BR><BR>You can download FWTools for linux or win32 from:<BR><BR>http://fwtools.maptools.org/<BR><BR>Best regards,<BR>--</P>
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<P>Dear Frank</P>
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<P>Thank you so much for your reply. This tool has solved my problem completely...</P>
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<P>I really appreciate that, well..I think I owe you a dinner....!!!</P>
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<P>All the best</P>
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