[Freegis-list] Seamless raster base-map of Europe 2000 now available on the Baltic GIS Portal

[Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)]

Hi,

what is the EPSG code for the CRS used? Thanks in advance.

gdalinfo returns:
c:\Program Files\FWTools1.0.0a7>gdalinfo 
c:\freedata\europe_ecw\glcf_lsm_2000_37
50000_3000000_laea.ecw
Driver: ECW/ERMapper Compressed Wavelets
Size is 17685, 17685
Coordinate System is:
LOCAL_CS["LOCAL",
    UNIT["Meter",1]]
Origin = (3748992.875000,3251007.125000)
Pixel Size = (14.25000000,-14.25000000)
Corner Coordinates:
Upper Left  ( 3748992.875, 3251007.125)
Lower Left  ( 3748992.875, 2998995.875)
Upper Right ( 4001004.125, 3251007.125)
Lower Right ( 4001004.125, 2998995.875)
Center      ( 3874998.500, 3125001.500)
Band 1 Block=17685x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Red
  Overviews: arbitrary
Band 2 Block=17685x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Green
  Overviews: arbitrary
Band 3 Block=17685x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Blue
  Overviews: arbitrary

Best regards,
Bart

Gedas Vaitkus wrote:

>Dear free-GISers,
>
>It's my pleasure to inform you that a seamless raster base-map of Europe 
>(ETRS90_LAEA CRS, 14.25 m pixel resolution), created on the basis of  
>USGS Landsat GeoCover 2000 (USGS Global Land Cover Facility) has been 
>recently published on-line at the Baltic GIS Portal (http://gis.ekoi.lt) 
>at the Institute of Ecology in Vilnius, Lihuania . Registered users can 
>download the 250x250 km tiles compressed into ECW format without any 
>limitations and totally free of charge. The easiest way to get the 
>images you need is to use the overview map 
>(http://gis.ekoi.lt/data/rs/glcf_lsm_2000_laea/glcf_lsm_2000_europe.html).
>
>The Baltic GIS Portal also offers a historical collection of ~400 
>original Landsat ETM/TM/MSS images covering the Baltic Sea drainage 
>basin (including St. Peterburg and Kaliningrad regions of Russia and 
>Byelorus) processed into ERDAS Imagine format from the original scenes 
>published by GLCF at the FTP server of the University of Maryland 
>(ftp://ftp.glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/glcf/Landsat/WRS2).
>
>A series of seamless GIS data coverages of Europe are currently under 
>processing and will be uploaded at the Portal soon.
>
>Go to http://gis.ekoi.lt , register (this is only need to limit the 
>traffic to the category of "real" users), and drag down the European 
>GIS/Satellite data of your interest.
>
>Enjoy Free GIS!
>
>Gedas Vaitkus
>
>GIS Group, Institute of Ecology
>Akademijos 2, 08412 Vilnius, Lithuania
>
>  
>


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Bart van den Eijnden
OSGIS, Open Source GIS
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