Hi Dan,
I did this and yes the extent appear to be in decimal degrees in the ranges you specified. I am fairly positive that the datum is WGS84 especially from reading the prj file in a text editor.
Again, this is what was in the prj file. How do I be sure that the datum is WGS84?
GEOGCS["unknown",DATUM["D_unknown",SPHEROID["unretrievable_using_WGS84",6378137,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]]
The manual reads:
"A user-friendly GeoTIFF version of the MCD64 product is derived from the standard MCD64A1 HDF
version by University ofMaryland. The GeoTIFF files are reprojected in Plate-Carr´ee projection and cover a
set of sub-continental windows (Figure 2). A table containing the regions covered and bounding coordinates
of the 24 windows.
Shapefiles of the MCD64A1 Burn Date layer are derived from the monthly GeoTIFF files by the University
of Maryland. The shapefiles are available with the same projection (Plate-Carr´ee) and geographic extent
used for the GeoTIFF sub-continental windows (Figure 2)."
Windows 5 and 6 are the regions in south America that I want to look at.
Thanks,
Melissa