[netCDF #QOX-991334]: Netcdf to tiff

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
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Ticket ID: QOX-991334
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed