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Welcome to pyModis
===================

``pyModis`` is a Free and Open Source Python based library to work with MODIS data.
It offers bulk-download for user selected time ranges, mosaicking of MODIS tiles,
and the reprojection from Sinusoidal to other projections, convert HDF format to other formats.

``pyModis`` library was developed to replace old bash scripts developed by Markus
Neteler to download MODIS data from NASA FTP/HTTP server. It is very useful for
`GIS and Remote Sensing Platform`_ of `Fondazione Edmund Mach`_ to update 
its large collection of MODIS data.

It has several features:

  - it is very useful for downloading large numbers of MODIS HDF/XML files
    and for using this in a cron job for automated continuous updating

  - it can parse the XML file to obtain information about the HDF files

  - it can convert a HDF MODIS file to GEOTIF file using `MODIS Reprojection Tool`_

  - it can create a mosaic of several tiles using `MODIS Reprojection Tool`_ and can
    create the xml metadata file with the information of all tiles used in mosaic

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   Contents:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   
   info
   scripts/software
   examples/full_example   
   pymodis/modules

We acknowledge the `Fondazione Edmund Mach`_ for promoting the development of 
free and open source software.   

.. Indices and tables
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   * :ref:`genindex`
   * :ref:`modindex`
   * :ref:`search`

.. _GIS and Remote Sensing Platform: http://gis.cri.fmach.it
.. _Fondazione Edmund Mach: http://www.fmach.it
.. _MODIS Reprojection Tool: https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/lpdaac/tools/modis_reprojection_tool