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[netCDF #QOX-991334]: Netcdf to tiff

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  • Subject: [netCDF #QOX-991334]: Netcdf to tiff
  • Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:41:41 -0600
Laura,

I just noticed that the gdal_translate utility is probably the easiest approach,
since it's available in binary form so you don't have to build anything from
source:

  http://fwtools.maptools.org/

--Russ

> > 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
> 
> 
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