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HDF-EOS Tools

Ray Milburn

Emergent Information Technologies, Inc.

Ray.Milburn@emergent-IT.com

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HDF-EOS Tools

• hdfeos4to5 - Conversion utility

• H5EOSView - HDF5 EOSView

• JEB - Java EOS Browse tool

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hdfeos4to5

• Unix command-line utility

• Converts HDF-EOS objects from HDF4 to HDF5 based data files.– Example: hdfeos4to5 -i SwathFile.hdf4 -o

SwathFile.hdf5

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H5EOSView• Displays HDF5 HDF-EOS objects only

• User Interface is identical to that of EOSView

• User is prompted for what part of the HDF-EOS object to view

•Displays Local and Field Level attributes

• Hypertext on-line help

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H5EOSView (cont.)• Displays HDF-EOS info in generic window

• Displays Attributes in Text Display

• Display of Field Data in a Table Display

•Convert Table to pseudo-color image

• Full image zooming/panning/colormap capabilities

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JEB - Java EOS Browser• Java interface written for subset of HDF-EOS functions

• Displays generic HDF4 files

• Displays HDF-EOS objects for HDF4 and HDF5 based files

• Display of Field Data in a spreadsheet

• Display Attributes in Text window

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Java EOS Browser (cont.)

• Raster image display

• Working on zooming/panning and image filters

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EOSView vs H5EOSView

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H5EOSView - Profile

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Java EOS Browser

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Java EOS Browser

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Input Solicited

• JEB could expand image capabilities and include generic HDF5

• JEB User Interface still a work in progress

• Full Java interface for HDF-EOS?