Hi APOSTOLOS Looks like you could maybe leave out the brackets so gdal_translate -of MSG(/home/tolis/Desktop/2003/06/05/H-000-MSG2__-MSG2_PAR____-WV_062___-000001___-200802281200-C_) /home/tolis/Desktop/output/outfile.tif
should be gdal_translate -of MSG /home/tolis/Desktop/2003/06/05/H-000-MSG2__-MSG2_PAR____-WV_062___-000001___-200802281200-C_ /home/tolis/Desktop/output/outfile.tif Am not sure about the file extension wrt the HRIT image but I think the brackets are whats causing the problem. In regards to the batch processing of your 96 images, it seems you are working linux and should be able to write a fairly simple bash script to repeat the above command. I am not much of a bash scripter myself but I am sure you can find a tutorial on the net, check out the following for an introduction http://wooledge.org:8000/BashFAQ#head-590f0a3ee41da32fb949a23423096437367343b0 http://db.glug-bom.org/Documentation/abs-guide/index.html HTH, WEsley >>> APOSTOLOS <agian...@geo.auth.gr> 04/09/09 10:24 AM >>> Dear list First all i would like to thank all the people in the list answered my questions. I finally managed to install MSG DRIVER but i have some questions about how to import and convert HRIT MSG2 images with GDAL I followed the example of the instructions from http://www.gdal.org/frmt_msg.html but i did not manage to convert HRIT to tif. My code bellow gdal_translate -of MSG(/home/tolis/Desktop/2003/06/05/H-000-MSG2__-MSG2_PAR____-WV_062___-000001___-200802281200-C_) /home/tolis/Desktop/output/outfile.tif bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' to...@ubuntu:~/gdal-1.6.0$ Any suggestions what i am doing wrong? Also what i realy want is to convert MSG2 HRIT thermal bands for segments 7 and 8 to images to brightness temperatures. Because i have 96 images per day is there any batch process for this kind of procedure? Does GDAL support this procedure? Thanks in advance for your time -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Read-and-convert-MSG2-hrit-data-with-GDAL-MSG-DRIVER-tp2609915p2609915.html Sent from the GDAL - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support. _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev