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

[Gedas Vaitkus]

Oops, this MUST be a mistake. Obviously CRS for ANY data you may find on 
the Baltic GIS Portal is nothing else, but ETRS89_LAEA - the recommended 
standard one. Sorry folks, I'm sleeping very little these weeks...

Gedas

Ari Jolma wrote:
> 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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