Hi Pauline:
NJ library can write GeoTIFF in a limited number of projections, but theres no
support for reading
geotiff into the CDM. It could be done if someone wanted to write the IOSP.
Its hard to write a general GeoTIFF reader well because of the thousands of
projections one would in
principle need to support. Also, theres no canonical way to store time and
vertical levels, and no
one apparently in charge of the standard for many years now. For these reasons
we have decided not
to invest much time into that format.
If I had to do it I would consider a jni interface to GDAL.
Pauline Mak wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been asked to check whether TDS supports GeoTiff files from one of
> our clients. They have thousands of these files and would like a nice
> way to aggregate them to serve it out. I tried adding a file to the TDS
> catalog, but it wasn't able to read the file (invalid NetCDF file).
> However, in the NetCDF javadoc, there is a geotiff class. Then looking
> at the NetCDF Java 4.0 feature list, it has only listed *generation* of
> GeoTiff files. Is it likely that TDS will support GeoTiff sometime in
> the future? I did also find a few pages with GDAL OPeNDAP Server, but
> can't seem to locate a copy of the server that I can install and have a
> look at...
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Pauline.
>
