[gdal-dev] How does GDAL's NetCDF driver determine the spatial
reference system
James Hiebert
hiebert at uvic.ca
Mon Aug 9 19:50:17 EDT 2010
Sure. The ticket can be found here:
https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3715
~James
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 03:13:59PM -0400, Lucena, Ivan wrote:
> James,
>
> Could do file a ticked and upload a sample file on http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Ivan
>
> James Hiebert wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm trying to use GDAL (version 1.7.2 on Gentoo built with hdf5 and netcdf
> > support) to read NetCDF files, but I'm a little unclear on how the NetCDF
> > driver attempts to determine the georeferencing.
> >
> > The driver page here:
> > http://www.gdal.org/frmt_netcdf.html
> > states that it will attempt to read the metadata "spatial_ref" for a Well
> > Know Text definition of the spatial reference (I assume that it means that
> > it will try to use a global attribute of the NetCDF file named spatial_ref).
> >
> > Since this would be convenient for my application, I attempted to use GDAL
> > this way without success.
> >
> > + I added a global attribute named "spatial_ref" with the WKT definition of
> > the spatial reference system.
> > + gdalinfo on the file still reports "Coordinate System is `'"
> > + opening the file with the python bindings and calling dst.GetProjection()
> > returns a blank string (i.e. no projection information)
> >
> > The full listings of my spatial reference definition, the output of ncdump
> > and gdalinfo and the output from the python session are listed below. Can
> > anyone tell me whether I'm doing something wrong, or should I not count on
> > georeferencing being supported by the NetCDF driver?
> >
> > ~James
> >
> > james at basalt ~ $ ncatted -a spatial_ref,global,a,c,'PROJCS["unnamed",GEOGCS["Normal Sphere
> > (r=6370997)",DATUM["unknown",SPHEROID["sphere",6370997,0]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION["Polar_Stereographic"],PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin",60],PARAMETER["central_meridian",263],PARAMETER["scale_factor",1],PARAMETER["false_easting",3925000],PARAMETER["false_northing",8325000]]'
> > narccap_ecpc-20c3m-tasmin-ncep.nc narccap_ecpc-20c3m-tasmin-ncep-with-srs.nc
> >
> >
> > james at basalt ~ $ ncdump -h narccap_ecpc-20c3m-tasmin-ncep-with-srs.nc
> > netcdf narccap_ecpc-20c3m-tasmin-ncep-with-srs {
> > dimensions:
> > xc = 123 ;
> > yc = 104 ;
> > time = UNLIMITED ; // (9496 currently)
> > bnds = 2 ;
> > variables:
> > char polar_stereographic ;
> > polar_stereographic:grid_mapping_name =
> > "polar_stereographic" ;
> > polar_stereographic:longitude_of_central_meridian = 263. ;
> > polar_stereographic:straight_vertical_longitude_from_pole =
> > 263. ;
> > polar_stereographic:standard_parallel = 60. ;
> > polar_stereographic:TrueGridLength_Latitude = 60. ;
> > polar_stereographic:XGridLength_M = 50000. ;
> > polar_stereographic:YGridLength_M = 50000. ;
> > polar_stereographic:PoleOnPlane = "north" ;
> > polar_stereographic:false_easting = 3925000. ;
> > polar_stereographic:false_northing = 8325000. ;
> > polar_stereographic:latitude_of_projection_origin = 90. ;
> > double yc(yc) ;
> > yc:long_name = "y-coordinate of Cartesian system" ;
> > yc:standard_name = "projection_y_coordinate" ;
> > yc:axis = "Y" ;
> > yc:units = "m" ;
> > double xc(xc) ;
> > xc:long_name = "x-coordinate of Cartesian system" ;
> > xc:standard_name = "projection_x_coordinate" ;
> > xc:axis = "X" ;
> > xc:units = "m" ;
> > double lon(yc, xc) ;
> > lon:units = "degrees_east" ;
> > lon:long_name = "longitude" ;
> > lon:standard_name = "longitude" ;
> > lon:axis = "X" ;
> > lon:NX_NumPntsOnParallel = 123 ;
> > lon:NY_NumPntsOnMeridian = 104 ;
> > lon:actual_range = 211.5412f, 316.2759f ;
> > lon:XGridLength_M = 50000. ;
> > lon:YGridLength_M = 50000. ;
> > lon:PoleOnPlane = "north" ;
> > double lat(yc, xc) ;
> > lat:units = "degrees_north" ;
> > lat:long_name = "latitude" ;
> > lat:standard_name = "latitude" ;
> > lat:axis = "Y" ;
> > lat:NX_NumPntsOnParallel = 123 ;
> > lat:NY_NumPntsOnMeridian = 104 ;
> > lat:actual_range = 21.23807f, 67.63758f ;
> > lat:XGridLength_M = 50000. ;
> > lat:YGridLength_M = 50000. ;
> > lat:PoleOnPlane = "north" ;
> > ...
> >
> > // global attributes:
> > ...
> > :history = "Mon Aug 9 13:44:50 2010: ncatted -a
> > spatial_ref,global,a,c,PROJCS[\"unnamed\",GEOGCS[\"Normal
> > Sphere
> > (r=6370997)\",DATUM[\"unknown\",SPHEROID[\"sphere\",6370997,0]],PRIMEM[\"Greenwich\",0],UNIT[\"degree\",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION[\"Polar_Stereographic\"],PARAMETER[\"latitude_of_origin\",60],PARAMETER[\"central_meridian\",263],PARAMETER[\"scale_factor\",1],PARAMETER[\"false_easting\",3925000],PARAMETER[\"false_northing\",8325000]]
> > narccap_ecpc-20c3m-tasmin-ncep.nc
> > narccap_ecpc-20c3m-tasmin-ncep-with-srs.nc\n",
> > "Fri May 8 09:34:14 2009: ncrcat
> > tasmin_ECPC_1979010106.nc tasmin_ECPC_1981010106.nc
> > tasmin_ECPC_1986010106.nc tasmin_ECPC_1991010106.nc
> > tasmin_ECPC_1996010106.nc tasmin_ECPC_2001010106.nc
> > narccap_ecpc-20c3m-tasmin-ncep.nc" ;
> > :nco_openmp_thread_number = 1 ;
> > :spatial_ref = "PROJCS[\"unnamed\",GEOGCS[\"Normal Sphere
> > (r=6370997)\",DATUM[\"unknown\",SPHEROID[\"sphere\",6370997,0]],PRIMEM[\"Greenwich\",0],UNIT[\"degree\",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION[\"Polar_Stereographic\"],PARAMETER[\"latitude_of_origin\",60],PARAMETER[\"central_meridian\",263],PARAMETER[\"scale_factor\",1],PARAMETER[\"false_easting\",3925000],PARAMETER[\"false_northing\",8325000]]"
> > ;
> > }
> >
> > james at basalt ~ $ gdalinfo narccap_ecpc-20c3m-tasmin-ncep-with-srs.nc
> > Driver: netCDF/Network Common Data Format
> > Files: narccap_ecpc-20c3m-tasmin-ncep-with-srs.nc
> > narccap_ecpc-20c3m-tasmin-ncep-with-srs.nc.aux.xml
> > Size is 512, 512
> > Coordinate System is `'
> > Metadata:
> > ...
> > NC_GLOBAL#history1=Original output in GRIB 1
> > NC_GLOBAL#history2=Contains modifications made to original data
> > NC_GLOBAL#history=Mon Aug 9 13:44:50 2010: ncatted -a
> > spatial_ref,global,a,c,PROJCS["unnamed",GEOGCS["Normal Sphere
> > (r=6370997)",DATUM["unknown",SPHEROID["sphere",6370997,0]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION["Polar_Stereographic"],PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin",60],PARAMETER["central_meridian",263],PARAMETER["scale_factor",1],PARAMETER["false_easting",3925000],PARAMETER["false_northing",8325000]]
> > narccap_ecpc-20c3m-tasmin-ncep.nc
> > narccap_ecpc-20c3m-tasmin-ncep-with-srs.nc
> > Fri May 8 09:34:14 2009: ncrcat tasmin_ECPC_1979010106.nc
> > tasmin_ECPC_1981010106.nc tasmin_ECPC_1986010106.nc
> > tasmin_ECPC_1991010106.nc tasmin_ECPC_1996010106.nc
> > tasmin_ECPC_2001010106.nc narccap_ecpc-20c3m-tasmin-ncep.nc
> > NC_GLOBAL#nco_openmp_thread_number=1
> > NC_GLOBAL#spatial_ref=PROJCS["unnamed",GEOGCS["Normal Sphere
> > (r=6370997)",DATUM["unknown",SPHEROID["sphere",6370997,0]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION["Polar_Stereographic"],PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin",60],PARAMETER["central_meridian",263],PARAMETER["scale_factor",1],PARAMETER["false_easting",3925000],PARAMETER["false_northing",8325000]]
> > Subdatasets:
> > SUBDATASET_1_NAME=NETCDF:"narccap_ecpc-20c3m-tasmin-ncep-with-srs.nc":lon
> > SUBDATASET_1_DESC=[104x123] longitude (64-bit floating-point)
> > SUBDATASET_2_NAME=NETCDF:"narccap_ecpc-20c3m-tasmin-ncep-with-srs.nc":lat
> > SUBDATASET_2_DESC=[104x123] latitude (64-bit floating-point)
> > SUBDATASET_3_NAME=NETCDF:"narccap_ecpc-20c3m-tasmin-ncep-with-srs.nc":time_bnds
> > SUBDATASET_3_DESC=[9496x2] time_bnds (64-bit floating-point)
> > SUBDATASET_4_NAME=NETCDF:"narccap_ecpc-20c3m-tasmin-ncep-with-srs.nc":tasmin
> > SUBDATASET_4_DESC=[9496x104x123] air_temperature (32-bit floating-point)
> > Corner Coordinates:
> > Upper Left ( 0.0, 0.0)
> > Lower Left ( 0.0, 512.0)
> > Upper Right ( 512.0, 0.0)
> > Lower Right ( 512.0, 512.0)
> > Center ( 256.0, 256.0)
> >
> >
> > james at basalt ~ $ python
> >>>> from osgeo import gdal
> >>>> dst = gdal.Open("narccap_ecpc-20c3m-tasmin-ncep-with-srs.nc")
> >>>> dst.GetProjection()
> >
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