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Re: reading and importing EOS-HDF [message #66772]

Tue, 09 June 2009 07:24

jameskuyper
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Registered: October 2007

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David Fanning wrote:
> Maarten writes:
>
>> HDF-EOS-2 (based on HDF-4) is fully supported in IDL, see the
>> documentation for the eos_pt_*, eos_gd_* and eos_sw_* routines in the
>> online help. These routines are failrly high-level, although the
>> calling order can be somewhat odd (especially when writing data to a
>> file).
>
> Humm. I guess my definition of "high-level" must be different
> from yours. Nevertheless, I find this alphabetical listing of
> routines you *could* use if you knew what the hell you were
> doing (which you don't) to be totally off-putting and
> depressing. Since years of IDL experience doesn't seem to
> help get through the morass, I can only imagine what I would
> think if I were approaching it as an IDL novice. "Matlab",
> probably. :-(

You might find the information available at <http://hdfeos.org/docs.php>
helpful. It doesn't document the IDL wrappers for the HDF-EOS routines,
but if you know the name of the appropriate C routine, it's usually not
too difficult to locate the corresponding IDL routine.

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		Re: reading and importing EOS-HDF By: jameskuyper on Tue, 09 June 2009 07:24
		Re: reading and importing EOS-HDF By: Maarten[1] on Tue, 09 June 2009 06:04
		Re: reading and importing EOS-HDF By: David Fanning on Tue, 09 June 2009 05:39
		Re: reading and importing EOS-HDF By: Maarten[1] on Tue, 09 June 2009 02:08

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