[gdal-dev] possible (probably) dumb question w.r.t to OpenGrADS and GDAL

[Matt Funk]

Hi,
i am fairly new to the earth science field and its implementation in
terms of programming.
I had a question that is probably fairly obvious to  most:
What is the difference/relationship between gdal and opengrads (or does
there even exist such a relationship?). Is one build on top of the
other. Are they competing products in some areas? Which has what place
where?

Grads description:
The Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS)
<http://grads.iges.org/grads> is an interactive desktop tool for easy
access, manipulation, and visualization of earth science dat

GDal:
GDal is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is
released under an X/MIT
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/FAQGeneral#WhatlicensedoesGDALOGRuse> style Open
Source <http://www.opensource.org/> license by the Open Source
Geospatial Foundation <http://www.osgeo.org/>.

So it looks to me both deal with gridded data (gdal->raster, gdal->Grid
Analysis ...), earth data etc...
I see that Grads describes itself as interactive ...

Anyway, does anyone know and if so could they enlighten me?

thanks
matt
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