How do I convert between ESRI world files, and GeoTIFF?
While it is presumably possible to accomplish this with ESRI software, it is also possible to use the listgeo and geotifcp executables distributed with libgeotiff to accomplish this. Recent binaries for selected platforms, and source, can be found at: ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/geotiff/libgeotiff/ To convert a TIFF file (abc.tif) and a world file (abc.tfw) into a simple GeoTIFF file (geo_abc.