On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Steve Bissell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Mahesh. I've never used the MODIS tool, but out of curiosity I checked the > web site, it looks to me like what you download from those sites are either > JPEG, PNG, GeoTIFF or GoogleEarth format files. None of those are HDF file > formats in any way .... or maybe I'm misunderstanding the web site?
If you use the "download data" button you get an hdf4 file, but in bzip2 compressed form. This has been a major source of confusion for new users -- it would be nice very helpful if hdfview could do some checks for common archive and compression formats -- people often get data in a form that can't used directly without realizing some extra steps are needed -- a common mistake with NASA OBPG files that don't have .hdf extension is to rename .bz2 to .hdf. > Steve > -- > View this message in context: > http://hdf-forum.184993.n3.nabble.com/HDF-View-file-process-tp1958827p1971771.html > Sent from the hdf-forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. > [email protected] > http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org > -- George N. White III <[email protected]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
