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  2. Welcome in pyModis library
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  4. *Thank you for downloading pyModis*
  5. **pyModis is a Python library to download and process MODIS data from NASA server**
  6. Copyright Luca Delucchi - 2010-2014
  7. License
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  9. pyModis is licensed under the terms of **GNU GPL 2**. Read COPYING for more info
  10. Install
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  12. For how to compile or install pyModis see INSTALL file.
  13. Executables
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  15. Some executables are distributed with the library:
  16. * **modis_download** downloads MODIS data
  17. * **modis_download_from_list** downloads MODIS data from NASA servers, the names of files to download have to be contained into a text file.
  18. * **modis_parse** parses the XML file of MODIS data and return some variables
  19. * **modis_multiparse** parses the XML file of multiple MODIS data and returns the bounding box or writes the XML file with the information of all
  20. selected tiles
  21. * **modis_mosaic** creates the mosaic of multiple MODIS tiles
  22. * **modis_convert** converts MODIS data from HDF format and Sinusoidal projection to other formats and projections
  23. * **modis_quality** checks the quality of MODIS data using the QA layer
  24. Other info
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  26. The logo of pyModis is pyModis.png; it is released under CC-BY-SA and it's distributed with the pyModis library
  27. More info about pyModis at http://www.pymodis.org/