Hi Laura, > I need open source tools to convert netCDF to tiff format. There are > so many tools for manipulating netCDF available I don't know where to > start with this particular conversion, could you point me toward some > that I can use? New to netCDF but need to get a conversion done quickly > and help would be much appreciated! You may want to aim at GeoTIFF rather than TIFF. A GeoTIFF file is also a TIFF file, but with standard tags to locate the data and make it easy to integrate with GIS systems or plot on a map. Here are some systems that support reading netCDF data and outputting data in GeoTIFF format: R http://www.r-project.org/ See the function writeGDAL, that takes the argument drivername = "GTiff" to write GeoTIFF. If you just want to output TIFF, it looks like that is available in the grDevices library: http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/grDevices/html/png.html Panoply http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/ can write straight TIFF files GDAL http://www.gdal.org/ Use the gdal_translate utility, using the GTIFF format on output Geotoolkit http://www.geotoolkit.org/ Recipe for conversion is here: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geotoolkit/2011-March/000540.html There are probably other ways, but that should get you started ... --Russ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: QOX-991334 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed