Rick, Looks like GDAL supports HDF4/5 format so you should be able to read data using rgdal. I've not tried it myself. Let me know what you find.
Cheers, Tim On 1/10/07, Rick Reeves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Greetings: > > This week I am working with HDF format files containing ocean color > imagery (CZCS, SeaWIFS) secured from NASA GSFC, > and would like to bring the image maps into the R environment. > > One way I have done this is to use the SeaDAS software to extract a > 2-dim binary floating point matrix (from the HDF file) > and write it to disk, then use R pixmap() to read it in to a vector. > This works, but one loses all of the image attributes > contained in the HDF header. Now, it would be good to read the HDF file > directly into R, capturing the header attributes. > > I have tried the R HDF5 library routine hdf5load(), which seems to read > the new .hdf5 format > but NOT the older .hdf format (I tried, unsuccessfully) > > Question is: Has anyone developed a technique to read HDF files with R? > > Thanks in advance, Rick R > > -- > Rick Reeves > Scientific Programmer / Analyst > National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis > UC Santa Barbara > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.nceas.ucsb.edu > 805 892 2533 > > > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo > > > > -- Timothy H. Keitt, University of Texas at Austin Contact info and schedule at http://www.keittlab.org/tkeitt/ Reprints at http://www.keittlab.org/tkeitt/papers/ ODF attachment? See http://www.openoffice.org/ [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
