HDF files

[John Caron]

Are these HDF5 or HDF4 files? If the latter, I think you neeed to use the HDF4 (or HDF4-EOS) libraries. If HDF5, The NetCDF-Java library can read some of them, but the netcdf C library cannot, and you will need the HDF5 (or HDF5-EOS) if you need a C library to do so.

Juan Del Rosario wrote:
> Hi!
> Excuse my poor English but I need your help. I am working with 
> information download from satellites but they are in HDF format since I 
> am new in this, I just recently installed Netcdf, I would like to know 
> if there is a routine in Netcdf that allow me to work with this type of 
> file. I will appreciate any help in this matter.
>  
> Thanks in advance,
>  
> Juan B. Del Rosario
> Naos Marine Laboratory
> Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
> e-mail: delrosaj at naos.si.edu <mailto:delrosaj at naos.si.edu>
> Phone (507) 212-8742
> Fax (507) 212-8790

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