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

[Ari Jolma]

Gedas writes ETRS_90_ but I suspect it's ETRS89-LAEA (EPSG:3035) which 
is commonly used by, e.g. EEA, for European-wide data.

Ari


Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) kirjoitti:
> 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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Prof. Ari Jolma
Kartografia ja Geoinformatiikka / Cartography and Geoinformatics
Teknillinen Korkeakoulu / Helsinki University of Technology
POBox 1200, 02015 TKK, Finland
Email: ari.jolma at tkk.fi URL: http://www.tkk.fi/~jolma