I've just announced my NetCDF tools 0.1-rc1 package [1], and wonder, is there anyone interested in having it in Debian? In the nutshell, the package basically provides a somewhat sophisticated wrapper around the ncvarget () and ncattget () functions (provided both by NetCDF and by the HDF4 compatibility layer), which may be used, in particular, in Shell scripts. The versions of the `ncget' tool have found occasional uses here, at Altai State University, during the last three years, and proved to be quite usable, despite having a few bugs and misfeatures. TIA. * Examples In particular, this package could be used to visualize MODIS L3 (HDF-EOS ``Grid'' structure) data (thanks to the NetPBM and ImageMagick packages), like (Bash syntax used): $ rgb3toppm <(ncget-hdf --raw \ MCD43B4.A2009153.h22v03.005.2009181051526.hdf \ Nadir_Reflectance_Band{1,4,3} \ | rawtopgm -bpp 2 -littleendian \ -maxval 15999 1200 1200) \ | convert -gamma 1.6 ppm:- ppm:- \ | display ppm:- In this example, the Nadir_Reflectance_Band1, ...4 and ...3 ``variables'' (i. e., arrays) of the HDF4 file were fetched and then converted to the PGM image format. Then, the gamma correction was applied and the resulting image is shown on an X display. * Download http://theory.asu.ru/~ivan/src/netcdf-tools-0.1-rc1.tar.gz http://waterlily.siamics.net/~ivan/src/netcdf-tools-0.1-rc1.tar.gz http://waterlily.siamics.net/~ivan/archives/git/nctools.git/ http://waterlily.siamics.net/~ivan/archives/git/gitweb.cgi?p=nctools.git The file used in the example above is available from NASA: ftp://e4ftl01u.ecs.nasa.gov/MODIS_Composites/MOTA/MCD43B4.005/2009.06.02/MCD43B4.A2009153.h22v03.005.2009181051526.hdf * References [1] news:87y6jm4lhp.fsf@violet.siamics.net -- FSF associate member #7257
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