From my experience working with NetCDF files in GDAL, your best option is to
write your own tools to work between NetCDF and other raster formats.
Specifically, I would use the API to read the NetCDF, and explicitly define
the georeferencing of your output file using whatever logic you know to be
I believe that NetCDF generally uses cell centres to specify pixel
coordinates, and there is no way to specify cell corners except by
adding metadata about the actual dimensions boundaries (this is more
problematic again if coordinates are not regular since you cannot
assume a regular half cell).
The NetCDF driver computes the pixel centre from lat/lon variables (see
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1506).
Is this correct or should it compute pixel upper-left?
Using the example NetCDF dataset attached to the above ticket
(http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/attachment/ticket/1506/out.nc),
