[Gdal-dev] Extracting HDF metadata

[Andrey Kiselev]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:18:47PM -0700, Inessa Shalomov wrote:
>   Thanks for the info. I am not sure whether this specific file that I
>   have contains this key  -- I'll need to get more info about this
>   product. I was given a few HDF file formats and asked to retrieve
>   specific fields, but I am not sure whether the products correspond
>   to the spec I am using.
>    
>   I did try to use gdalinfo on the file, as well as on it's
>   subdatasets. A lot of data was outputted, but nothing close to the
>   field I am interested in. So, given that fact, can I conclude that
>   the field is not available in that file? Does gdalinfo and
>   getMetadata return all the possible metadata in that product? 

Well, it should, but bugs are possible, of course. Try the third party
viewers to manually explore the metadata records (I am using hdfview or
hdflook).

Regards,
Andrey

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Andrey V. Kiselev
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