Difference between revisions of "MRLC"

Latest revision as of 15:27, 9 January 2019

A seamless download site that has NED and NLCD data for the US in BIL format.

Follow these steps to download the terrain data in the BIL format

Click the download button for each data-set and wait for the extraction process to complete (Could take 5-10 minutes or longer)

Unzip the files in to a folder. Use separate folders for NED and NLCD data

Select Configure -> Setup GIS Configuration from the Pathloss 5 main menu.

Select the top level folder that contains all the unziped NED data.

Clutter is set up similarly.

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 == Multi Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium ==
-http://www.mrlc.gov/viewerjs/
+=== The MRLC site has discontinued the BIL format. please use the [[FetchSRTM]] tool to download NLCD data in the BIL format ===
+A seamless download site that has NED and NLCD data for the US in BIL format.
+'''http://www.mrlc.gov/viewerjs/'''
+====Download the data in BIL format====
+Follow these steps to download the terrain data in the BIL format
+[[File:Mrlc-1.jpg|700px]]
+[[File:Mrlc-2.jpg|700px]]
+[[File:Mrlc-3.jpg|700px]]
+Click the download button for each data-set and wait for the extraction process to complete (Could take 5-10 minutes or longer)
+Unzip the files in to a folder. Use separate folders for NED and NLCD data
+====Configuring Pathloss 5 to use the data====
+Select Configure -> Setup GIS Configuration from the Pathloss 5 main menu.
+[[File:Mrlc-4.jpg|600px]]
+Select the top level folder that contains all the unziped NED data.
+Clutter is set up similarly.
+[[File:Mrlc-5.jpg|600px]]