modis_mosaic.py
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**modis_mosaic.py** creates a mosaic of several MODIS tiles in
HDF format, using MRT mrtmosaic software or GDAL library.

Usage
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    modis_mosaic.py [options] hdflist_file

Options
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.. image:: ../_static/gui/modis_mosaic.png
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  :alt: GUI for modis_mosaic.py
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  :class: gui

.. code-block:: none

  General options:
    -o OUTPUT_FILE, --output=OUTPUT_FILE
                        (Required) the name or prefix (for VRT) of output
                        mosaic
    -s SUBSET, --subset=SUBSET
                        a subset of product layers. The string should be
                        similar to: 1 0 [default: all layers]

  Options for GDAL:
    -f OUTPUT_FORMAT, --output-format=OUTPUT_FORMAT
                        output format supported: GTiff, HDF4Image
                        [default=GTiff]
    -v, --vrt           Create a GDAL VRT file. No other GDAL options have to
                        been set

  Options for MRT:
    -m MRT_PATH, --mrt=MRT_PATH
                        (Required) the path to MRT software

Examples
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Using the MODIS Reprojection Tool
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Convert all the layers of several tiles

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    modis_mosaic.py -m "/usr/local/bin/" -o FILE_mosaic MOSAIC_FILES_LIST

Convert LAYERS of several LST MODIS tiles

.. code-block:: none

    modis_mosaic.py -s "1 0 1 0" -m "/usr/local/bin/" -o FILE_mosaic MOSAIC_FILES_LIST

Using GDAL
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Convert the first LAYERS of several tiles with resolution 1km in GeoTIFF format

.. code-block:: none

    modis_mosaic.py -o FILE_mosaic.tif -s "1"  MOSAIC_FILES_LIST

Create a mosaic with all the layers of several tiles in HDF4Image format

.. code-block:: none

    modis_mosaic.py -o FILE_mosaic.hdf -f HDF4Image MOSAIC_FILES_LIS

Create VRT file for all subset. It creates a VRT file for each subset with the
chosen prefix (``-o`` flag) and the name of layer as suffix

.. code-block:: none

    modis_mosaic.py -o mosaic_vrt -v MOSAIC_FILES_LIS

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