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Re: netCDF to GIS?

Jona,

If you have ENVI program, you can read netcdf file directly and I believe
you can output the data to GIS format. (Reading is done by 'hdf_browser'
command in IDL that handles both netcdf and hdf file formats.)

Yin S. Soong

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On Fri, 12 May 2000, Jona Finndis Jonsdottir wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm a masters student at University of Texas at Austin, currently I'm
> working on a GIS based research project on the arctic ocean, funded by the NSF
> 
> One of my goals is to take output of a oceanographic model, developed by
> another institution and transfer it to GIS (ArcView / ArcInfo). The problem
> is that the output of the model is in NetCDF format, which I don't know how
> to handle.
> 
> Therefore I'm curious, whether someone has been working with both netCDF
> files as well as ArcView/ArcInfo and whether I could get some useful hints.
> 
> I'm working in a Windows NT environment so that programs running only on
> other systems would not be very helpful
> 
> Thank you
> Jona Finndis Jonsdottir
> 
> ------
> jonafinndis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.ce.utexas.edu/stu/jonsdoj
> 
> 




 
 
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