Dear Wesley,
You may give a try to the MODIS package. Currently it has build problems in R-Forge but you can also install ZIP or TAR from here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/18t0rgcm6bga7xt/-4k_Xwojxr/MODIS If you just want to download the data you are fine with that. If you want to also process the data and you use Windows, you need a GDAL with HDF4 driver (FWTools or OSgeos4W). http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ (http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/osgeo4w-setup.exe) or http://fwtools.maptools.org/ (http://home.gdal.org/fwtools/FWTools247.exe) If basic settings (like the location of the local HDF archieve) are fine see ?MODISoptions, you can proceed directly to the processing see: ?runGdal(). Matteo >>> Wesley Roberts 12/10/12 2:30 PM >>> Dear R-Sig-Geo, I am currently using a script I downloaded from the spatial-analyst.netwebsite to download and mosaic a couple of MODIS Tiles for my study area ( http://spatial-analyst.net/wiki/index.php?title=Download_and_resampling_of_MODIS_images ) I have managed to get as far as the first wget request and am receiving the following error. > download.file(paste(MOD13A3, dates$dirname[[i]], "/", BLOCK1,sep=""), destfile=paste(getwd(), "/", BLOCK1, sep=""), mode='wb', method='wget', quiet=T, cacheOK=FALSE) cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: C:/Users/biocarbon/Documents/MOD13A3.A2001091.h20v09.005.2007112114336.hdf Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/Users/biocarbon/Documents/MOD13A3.A2001091.h20v09.005.2007112114336.hdf CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning. Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames Warning messages: 1: running command 'wget --quiet --cache=off " ftp://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/MOLT/MOD13A3.005/2001.05.01/MOD13A3.A2001091.h20v09.005.2007112114336.hdf" -O "C:/Users/biocarbon/Documents/MOD13A3.A2001091.h20v09.005.2007112114336.hdf"' had status 8 2: In download.file(paste(MOD13A3, dates$dirname[[i]], "/", BLOCK1, : download had nonzero exit status I presume wget is working correctly and that I have specified the correct server credentials as per the original example code. I am currently manually downloading data using FileZilla so I presume the server is working. Is wget allowed to access data on this server? If not are there other tools I can use to download the data? Any help on the above mentioned error would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks and kind regards, Wesley -- Dr Wesley Roberts jwesrobe...@gmail.com Cell: +27(0)83 5355 646 skype: roberts-w [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo