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Welcome in pyModis library
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*Thank you for downloading pyModis*

**pyModis is a Python library to download and process MODIS data from NASA server**

Copyright Luca Delucchi - 2010-2014

License
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pyModis is licensed under the terms of **GNU GPL 2**. Read COPYING for more info

Install
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For how to compile or install pyModis see INSTALL file.

Executables
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Some executables are distributed with the library:

  * **modis_download** downloads MODIS data
  * **modis_download_from_list** downloads MODIS data from NASA servers, the names of files to download have to be contained into a text file.
  * **modis_parse** parses the XML file of MODIS data and return some variables
  * **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
    selected tiles
  * **modis_mosaic** creates the mosaic of multiple MODIS tiles
  * **modis_convert** converts MODIS data from HDF format and Sinusoidal projection to other formats and projections
  * **modis_quality** checks the quality of MODIS data using the QA layer


Other info
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The logo of pyModis is pyModis.png; it is released under CC-BY-SA and it's distributed with the pyModis library

More info about pyModis at http://pymodis.fem-environment.eu/