[gdal-dev] How to represent multi-dimensional array

[Joaquim Luis]

Don't know if this is what you are looking for but if those netCDF files 
are of a similar type that one can get from the poet site 
(http://poet.jpl.nasa.gov/), Mirone has a tool called "Aquamoto" (a tool 
original developed to show time stamps of a tsunami propagation models) 
that loads those files and show their content interactively with the 
help of a slider.

Joaquim

> Hi folks,
>
> I have a dataset that is a 4-dimensional array of values: time,x,y,z
>
> We're currently using netcdf to store it, which is well suited to this 
> kind of data.
>
> However, we also need to get it into a GIS (Arc in this case), and I'm 
> trying to find a good way to do that.
>
> Both Arc and gdalinfo do strange things if I simply point them at the 
> netcdf file. GDAL seems to (arbitrarily?) see it as a 9064 band data 
> set, so it is taking particular slice (I think I'm getting a bunch of 
> (time, z) 2-d bands.
>
> Anyway, I suspect that if I re-arrange the axis in the netcdf file, I 
> might get something more reasonable, but my question is:
>
> What is a good format to ex[press this to a GIS system?
>
> I'm imaging multiple files, maybe geo-tiff, but how to I express time 
> and elevation in a way that is natural to GIS?
>
> thanks for your thoughts,
>
> -Chris
>
>