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HDF-EOS libraries

HDF-EOS is a software library that is an extension of National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) HDF.
The library supports the construction of new data structures: Grid, Point and Swath.

• HDF-EOS2 -- HDF-EOS library built on HDF4
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  Detailed description: HDF-EOS 2 is a software library designed built on HDF4 to support EOS-specific data structures, namely Grid, Point, and Swath. The new data structures are constructed from standard HDF data objects, using EOS conventions, through the use of a software library [1,4]. A key feature of HDF-EOS files is that instrument-independent services, such as subsetting by geolocation, can be applied to the files across a wide variety of data products. The library is extensible and new data structures can be added.
  
  Download -- HDF-EOS 2.15
  
• HDF-EOS5 -- HDF-EOS library built on HDF5
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  Detailed description: The HDF-EOS 5 library written in conjunction with HDF5 and which uses HDF5 functionality, will necessarily be a rewrite of the HDF4-based version. The new HDF5-based library will support the same Grid/Point/Swath functionality and to the extent possible it will be built with the same calling sequences as the original library.
  
  Download -- HDF-EOS 5.1.11
  
• HDF-EOS JNI -- HDF-EOS Java Interfaces
  
  

HDF-EOS Tools

• Binary_Dumper -- dumps HDF-EOS objects in binary format
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  Detailed description: The binary dumper utility dumps HDF-EOS objects in binary format. This is useful for feeding the output of it into existing program, which does not understand HDF, for example: custom software and COTS products.
  
  Download -- Binary Dumper
  
  
• CV -- reads the HDF and HDF-EOS files in native ISIS cube format
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  Detailed description: The "cv" (Cube Visualization) program has been used for a number of years as part of the ISIS image processing system (Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers). "cv" has recently been enhanced to directly read the HDF and HDF-EOS file formats in addition to the native ISIS cube format. This includes data from the Terra and Landsat 7 satellites. Files based on HDF Version 4.x are supported; files based on the new HDF 5.x are not supported. "cv" is also now packaged so that it can be run without installing the rest of the ISIS software system.
  
  Download -- CV
  
  
• EOSVIEW -- displays and verifies HDF and HDF-EOS files
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  Detailed description: EOSView is a file viewing tool developed for the ECS project for the examination and verification of HDF and HDF-EOS data files. This tool enables the user of EOS data products to view the contents of HDF files and individual objects by being able to read and display all metadata fields and data objects appropriately. Supported record types for viewing and display capability include images, Raster images, multidimensioal arrays, text, tables, (Vdatas) and Vgroups. Attributes and annotations can also be viewed. EOSView users will see the underlying HDF structures and will be prompted for which parts of the structure they wish to view.
  
  Download -- EOSVIEW
  
  
• HDFExplorer -- visualization program that reads HDF, HDF-EOS and HDF5 files
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  Detailed description: A data visualization program that reads Hierarchical Data Format files (HDF, HDF-EOS and HDF5), HDFExplorer offers a simple yet powerful interface for the visualization of HDF data. Data is first viewed in a tree-like interface, and then optionally visualized in a variety of ways. HDFExplorer Lite is a free product, displaying data in grid view only. HDFExplorer Pro has additional features not included in the Lite version including scalar and vector views, and exporting as either ASCII text files or a bitmap images.
  
  Download -- HDFExplorer
  
  
• HDFView -- a visual tool for browsing and editing NCSA HDF4 and HDF5 files
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  Detailed description: The HDFView is a Java-based tool for browsing and editing NCSA HDF4 and HDF5 files. HDFView allows users to browse through any HDF4 and HDF5 file; starting with a tree view of all top-level objects in an HDF file's hierarchy. HDFView allows a user to descend through the hierarchy and navigate among the file's data objects. The content of a data object is loaded only when the object is selected, providing interactive and efficient access to HDF4 and HDF5 files. HDFView editing features allow a user to create, delete, and modify the value of HDF objects and attributes.
  
  Download -- HDFView
  
  
• HDF-EOS plug-in for HDFView -- extends HDFView functionality for browsing any HDFEOS file
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  Detailed description: With HDF-EOS plug-in installed the HDFView functionality is extended for browsing any HDFEOS file; starting with a tree view of all top-level objects in an HDF file's hierarchy, such as Grid, Swath and Point data. HDFView with plug-in allows a user to descend through the hierarchy and navigate among the file's geo and data objects.?With the extended tool users are also allowed to create, delete, and modify the value of HDF-EOS objects and attributes.
  
  Download -- HDF-EOS plug-in for HDFView
  
  
• HE5View -- a file viewing tool for examining and verifying HDF-EOS 5.x files
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  Detailed description: HE5View is a file viewing tool developed for the ECS project for the examination and verification of HDF-EOS Version 5.x data files. This tool enables the user of EOS data products to view the contents of HDF-EOS files and individual objects by being able to read and display all metadata fields and data objects appropriately. Supported record types for viewing and display capability include Swath, Grid, and Point objects in table, image and text format. Attributes and annotations can also be viewed.
  
  Download -- HE5View
  
  
• HEG -- converts HDF-EOS to GeoTIFF
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  Detailed description: The HDF-EOS to GeoTIFF Conversion Tool (HEG) has a graphical user interface (GUI) which uses Java Swing technology. The user interface consists of two (2) main windows. The first window is for the selection of HDF-EOS files for conversion into the GeoTIFF format. The second window is for stitching and subsetting common HDF-EOS files. The main purpose of the HEG tool is to assist users in creating files that are more useful and informative.
  
  Download -- HEG
  
• HEMU -- a tool to update metadata inside an HDF-EOS file
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  Detailed description: HDF-EOS Metadata Updater (HEMU) is a tool for data producers or users to extract, replace and update metadata inside an HDF-EOS file (HDF-EOS2 and HDF-EOS5).
  
  Download -- HEMU
  
  
• HMR -- reads metadata from HDF-EOS file and writes to a text file
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  Detailed description: The HDF-EOS Metadata Reader (hmr) program is used to read metadata from HDF-EOS file and write to a text file.
  
  Download -- HMR
  
  
• HMU -- updates the metadata embedded in an HDF-EOS file
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  Detailed description: This HDF-EOS metadata updater (hmu) program is for end users or data producers who have received HDF-EOS data with associated ".met" files from ECS. The EOS metadata embedded in an HDF-EOS data granule from ECS reflects the information available at the time of granule creation, while the metadata in the ".met" file reflects the information in the inventory at the time of distribution. The hmu tool updates the metadata embedded in an HDF-EOS file with the newer information in the ".met" file.
  
  Download -- HMU
  
  
• JEB -- a Java EOS Browse tool
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  Detailed description: JEB is the Java EOS Browse tool. Its goal is to someday to be able to display all HDF objects both HDF4, HDF5, and HDF-EOS without the user having to have any knowledge of the file type. JEB was orignally derived from the JEST project at ECS. The browse tool of JEST was originally an applet that only displayed small portions of an HDF4 file.
  
  Download -- JEB
  
  
• MS2GT -- reads HDF-EOS files containing MODIS swath data and produces flat binary files containing gridded data
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  Detailed description: The MODIS Swath-to-Grid Toolbox (MS2GT) is a set of software tools that can be used to read HDF-EOS files containing MODIS swath data and produce flat binary files containing gridded data in a variety of map projections. Multiple input files corresponding to successively acquired 5 minute MODIS "scenes" can be processed together to produce a seamless output grid.
  
  Download -- MS2GT
  
  
• MTD -- allows EOSDIS extended data providers to format their products in ECS standard formats
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  Detailed description: Metadata and Time/Date (MTD) is a set of tools that are extracted from the Science Data Processing (SDP) Toolkit for the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Core System (ECS) Project to comprise the MTD Toolkit release. The primary purpose of this tool set is to allow EOSDIS extended data providers the capability of formatting their products in ECS standard formats, without requiring the entire SDP Toolkit package. Toolkit_MTD will also allow creation of and access to ECS standard metadata.
  
  Download -- MTD
  
  
• MetCheck -- validates the inventory meta-data in a ".met" file
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  Detailed description: MetCheck valisates the inventory meta-data in ".met" file using The Description file ".desc" as the reference. The tool takes a ".desc" and ".met" ODL file as inputs, and generates a simple output file that contains the results of the checking process.
  
  Download -- MetCheck
  
  
• ODL2XML -- converts any ECS ODL file to an ECS XML file
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  Detailed description: ODL2XML converts any ECS ODL file to an ECS XML file that conforms to the ECS DTD. The tool utilizes an all java ODL library that includes a syntax and grammer parser. It converts any collection, granule, unsorted level ODL file and all other ODL file to the corresponding XML file.
  
  Download -- ODL2XML
  
  
• PGS_Toolkit -- a set of tools to manage the metadata that are generated with each EOS product
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  Detailed description: This set of tools is designed to manage the metadata that are generated with each EOS product, i.e., the granule-level metadata. The tools also provide a mechanism for populating the inventory data base tables with the metadata for each granule. The purpose of these tools includes a) to ensure that the metadata produced conforms to ECS standards in content and format; and b) to provide access files from within the science algorithms to metadata contained in input files.
  
  Download -- PGS_Toolkit
  
  
• PHDIS -- reads any HDF-EOS file containing data gridded in the Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection
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  Detailed description: Polar HDF-EOS Data Imaging and Subsetting Tool (PHDIS) is designed to read any HDF-EOS file containing data gridded in the Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection. It can also read HDF-EOS swath data.
  
  Download -- PHDIS
  
  
• TRMM_Data_Reader -- reads in a TRMM HDF-EOS data file, and writes out SDS and Vdata as binary files
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  Detailed description: TRMM_Data_Reader is a program to read in a TRMM HDF-EOS data file, and write out user-selected SDS arrays and Vdata tables as separate flat binary files. Metadata (global attributes) are written out in a separate ascii file with extension .meta. Data in output files will be the same number type (float32, int32, int16, int8, uint8) as the corresponding array in the input (HDF) file.
  
  Download -- TRMM_Data_Reader
  
  
• UFM -- accepts an ODL file as input, and generates a simple HTML representation of the ODL
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  Detailed description: The User-friendly Metadata (UFM) tool takes input from standard input (STDIN) and writes output to standard output (STDOUT) and/or standard error (STDERR). Command line options provide a user with the ability to modify the program's functionality. The tool accepts an ODL file as input, and generates a simple HTML representation of the ODL as output. More sophistication can be added by use of an instructions file.
  
  Download -- UFM
  
  
• hdf2bin -- converts HDF or HDFEOS file into plain binary file
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  Detailed description: HDFtoBINARY (hdf2bin) converts HDF or HDFEOS file into plain binary file. Usage of the program will be printed on screen upon typing the executable name, e.g., hdf2bin-solaris. Platforms available: SUN Solaris, SGI Irix, Linux, and Windows
  
  Download -- hdf2bin
  
  
• hdfeos-netcdf -- converts HDF-EOS4/5 files to netCDF
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  Detailed description: hdfeos2netcdf converts HDF-EOS4/5 files to netCDF. hdfeos2netcdf takes two file name arguments: the name of the HDF-EOS5 input file and the name of the netCDF output file. If the converter encounters an error it can't recover from, it prints an error message and exits; otherwise, it creates the output file and exits quietly.
  
  Download -- hdfeos-netcdf
  
  
• hdfeos52netcdf -- converts HDF-EOS5 files to netCDF
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  Detailed description: hdfeos52netcdf converts HDF-EOS5 files to netCDF. hdfeos52netcdf takes two file name arguments: the name of the HDF-EOS5 input file and the name of the netCDF output file. If the converter encounters an error it can't recover from, it prints an error message and exits; otherwise, it creates the output file and exits quietly.
  
  Download -- hdfeos52netcdf
  
  
• he2he5_lib -- a library of HDF-EOS 4/5 Compatibility Layer
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  Detailed description: This library lets you write certain types of HDF-EOS file manipulating programs without caring whether the file being processed is HDF-EOS4 or HDF-EOS5.
  
  Download -- he2he5_lib
  
  
• he5cc -- a shell script that does for HDF-EOS5 what the h5cc script does for HDF5
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  Detailed description: he5cc is a shell script that does for HDF-EOS5 what the h5cc script does for HDF, primarily because it is a wrapper around h5cc. Both of them allow you to compile and link HDF/HDF-EOS5 programs without putting platform-dependent compiler and linker options in your build scripts and makefiles, allowing you to write one installer for all HDF-EOS5 platforms.
  
  Download -- he5cc
  
  
• he5ex -- extracts HDF-EOS5 data to binary or ASCII data format in HTML or XML index
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  Detailed description: HDF-EOS5 Data Extractor (HE5EX) is a tool for data users to extract HDF-EOS5 data to binary or ASCII data format in HTML or XML index (XML index will be changed as HDF-EOS5 DTD is evolving).
  
  Download -- he5ex
  
  
• he5mu -- updates metadata inside an HDF-EOS5 file
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  Detailed description: HDF-EOS5 Metadata Updater (HE5MU) is a tool for data producers or users to extract, replace and update metadata inside an HDF-EOS5 file.
  
  Download -- he5mu
  
  
• he5v -- a Profile Validator for HDF-EOS 5
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  Detailed description: The HDF-EOS 5 Profile Validator (he5v) compares an HDF-EOS 5 file against a definition file, which is an XML document consisting of an element. A Document Type Definition (DTD) for those definition files is in the validator sources as he5v.x.
  
  Download -- he5v v1.0
  Download -- archived versions
  
  
• heconvert -- converts HDF-EOS Version 2.x files to HDF-EOS Version 5.x
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  Detailed description: heconvert is a command-line conversion utility used to convert HDF-EOS Version 2.x files to HDF-EOS Version 5.x. Upon successful completion of heconvert there will exist a fully qualified HDF-EOS Version 5.x file that is based on using the HDF5 library. heconvert will not convert non-HDF-EOS objects to HDF5.
  
  Download -- heconvert
  
  
• heex -- extracts HDF-EOS data to binary or ASCII data format in HTML or XML index
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  Detailed description: HDF-EOS Data Extractor (HEEX) is a tool for data users to extract HDF-EOS data to binary or ASCII data format in HTML or XML index (XML index will be changed as HDF-EOS5 DTD is evolving). This tool is for both HDF-EOS2 and HDF-EOS5 and it automatically recognizes the two formats.
  
  Download -- heex
  
  
• view_hdf -- a visualizationtool for accessing data stored in HDF and HDF-EOS files
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  Detailed description: view_hdf is a visualization and analysis tool for accessing data stored in Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) and HDF-EOS (EOS extensions to HDF) files. The view_hdf tool can select and subset variables from either Science Data Set (SDS) or vdata structures in an HDF file, render both two- and three-dimensional graphics, and plot geolocated data onto various world map projections.
  
  Download -- view_hdf
  
  
• xml2he -- takes an XML document and creates an HDF-EOS4/5 file matching the document
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  Detailed description: xml2he is a program that takes an XML document describing an HDF-EOS4/5 dataset file and creates an HDF-EOS4/5 file matching the document. This program performs the inverse of one of the functions of the HdfeosDataExtractor program.
  
  Download -- xml2he