The following table organizes HDF (4) tools by category to help users focus on the tools they need.
Category | Tools | Comments | Usage |
|---|---|---|---|
View or Display | HDFView | Interactive Java tool. Can view HDF file tree structure, images, spreadsheets, properties, attributes. | |
| hdp | Command-line tool to view HDF file | hdp list file.hdf hdp dumpsds file.hdf | |
| hdfls | Command-line tool to view HDF file | hdfls file.hdf | |
| vshow | Command-line tool to view Vgroups and Vdatas in an HDF file. | vshow file.hdf + | |
Modify | HDFView | Interactive Java tool: can create, edit, add attributes/datasets | |
Export | HDFView | Interactive Java tool. Text and Binary data can be exported to a file. HDF4 and HDF5 images and palettes can be exported to JPEG, PNG, GIF, or BMP files. | |
| hdp | Text and binary data can be exported to a file. | hdp dumpsds -s -d -n "data1" file.hdf > file.asc hdp dumpsds -b -o file.bin file.hdf | |
Convert | HDFView | Can convert GIF, JPEG, BMP, and PNG images into HDF, and vice-versa | See Section 6.6 in UG. |
| h4toh5 | Command-line utility to convert HDF files into HDF5. | h4toh5 foo.hdf foo.h5 h4toh5 -na foo.hdf foo.h5 (convert to HDF5 files without the pre-defined HDF attributes) | |
| HDF to NetCDF | Several tools to get HDF to NetCDF | ||
| HDF To Excel | You can use hdp or HDFView to get output that is readable by Excel. | Save file to ASCII then import into Excel: hdp dumpsds -s -d -n "data1" sd.hdf > & sd.asc | |
| HDF-EOS2 to GeoTIFF | Convert HDF file to GeoTiff. Requires file to be HDF-EOS to include requred information such as latitude/longitude. |
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