[gdal-dev] How to represent multi-dimensional array

2010-06-17 Thread Christopher Barker
Hi folks, I have a dataset that is a 4-dimensional array of values: time,x,y,z We're currently using netcdf to store it, which is well suited to this kind of data. However, we also need to get it into a GIS (Arc in this case), and I'm trying to find a good way to do that. Both Arc and gdal

Re: [gdal-dev] How to represent multi-dimensional array

2010-06-17 Thread Michael Sumner
I don't think there is a GIS that does this in a natural way - all you can do is read in multiple slices. If the order of your axes really is time, x, y, z then you will have y.n * z.n (time, x) slices (as bands) when read by GDAL - NetCDF will tend to store dimensions in reverse order to the natu

Re: [gdal-dev] How to represent multi-dimensional array

2010-06-17 Thread Joaquim Luis
Don't know if this is what you are looking for but if those netCDF files are of a similar type that one can get from the poet site (http://poet.jpl.nasa.gov/), Mirone has a tool called "Aquamoto" (a tool original developed to show time stamps of a tsunami propagation models) that loads those fi

Re: [gdal-dev] How to represent multi-dimensional array

2010-06-17 Thread Lucena, Ivan
Chris, Christopher Barker wrote: Hi folks, I have a dataset that is a 4-dimensional array of values: time,x,y,z We're currently using netcdf to store it, which is well suited to this kind of data. However, we also need to get it into a GIS (Arc in this case), and I'm trying to find a good

RE: [gdal-dev] How to represent multi-dimensional array

2010-06-18 Thread Jason Roberts
.org [mailto:gdal-dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Barker Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 3:16 PM To: gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [gdal-dev] How to represent multi-dimensional array Hi folks, I have a dataset that is a 4-dimensional array of values: time,x,y,z We're

Re: [gdal-dev] How to represent multi-dimensional array

2010-06-19 Thread Christopher Barker
Thanks to Michael, Joaquim, Ivan, and Jason. I'll explore some of the tools and suggestions you made. Michael Sumner wrote: NetCDF will tend to store dimensions in reverse order to the natural one, and I think GDAL reverses that - but you can tell by the dimension and number of your bands, and

RE: [gdal-dev] How to represent multi-dimensional array

2010-06-21 Thread Jason Roberts
arker Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 5:45 PM To: gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] How to represent multi-dimensional array Thanks to Michael, Joaquim, Ivan, and Jason. I'll explore some of the tools and suggestions you made. Michael Sumner wrote: > NetCDF will tend to store di

Re: [gdal-dev] How to represent multi-dimensional array

2010-06-21 Thread Christopher Barker
ng, which is what we were exporting. So I should be able to fix that. -thanks, -Chris Jason -Original Message- From: gdal-dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:gdal-dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Barker Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 5:45 PM To: gdal-dev@lists.osgeo

Re: [gdal-dev] How to represent multi-dimensional array

2010-06-21 Thread Michael Sumner
angular cells. > > Jason > > > -Original Message- > From: gdal-dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org > [mailto:gdal-dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Barker > Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 5:45 PM > To: gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: Re: [gdal-d

RE: [gdal-dev] How to represent multi-dimensional array

2010-06-22 Thread Jason Roberts
Sumner Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 7:05 PM To: gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] How to represent multi-dimensional array I find this categorization helpful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_grid Any GIS will do regular and cartesian grids (but usually bound to 2D), and with pro