NGDC binary format files

Lester Anderson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gis.gmt.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,
 
I am looking to make GMT grids of the FSU magnetics data but I am not sure how to read it into GMT.
The header file is shown below for the binary file, and looks to be scanline
 
Cheers
Lester
file_title                       = 1 Arc Minute Grid, Region 1
data_type                        = image
palette                          = RAINBOW
data_byte_order                  = little_endian
map_projection                   = lat/lon
missing_flag                     = 99999.99999
upper_map_y                      = 77.65
lower_map_y                      = 35.4
left_map_x                       = 18
right_map_x                      = 60.98
number_of_rows                   = 2536
number_of_columns                = 2580
grid_size_y                      = 0.017
grid_size_x                      = 0.017
grid_unit                        = degrees
grid_origin                      = lowerleft_x
grid_cell_registration           = center of cell
data_value_unit                  = millioersteds
mag_anomaly_min                  = -8849.65760
mag_anomaly_max                  = 40586.58700
mag_anomaly_units                = millioersteds
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/fliers/se-0102.shtml  		 	   		  
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