[gdal-dev] Hierarchical Data Format-EOS 2 conversion in Gdal

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 11-01-10 01:19 PM, Adam Bausch wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am attempting to process a large volume of MERIS mosaic data obtained from
> ENVISAT in HDF-EOS2 format, however, I continue to get a "not a supported
> format" error when I try to run it. I have installed the HDF-4 (libdf), HDF-5
> (libhdf5) and NetCDF libraries and checked with our Linux/Unix administrator to
> try and identify the problem with no resolution. I was wondering if anyone else
> has had this problem or if there is a fix.

Adam,

Please ensure that GDAL has the hdf4 driver configured.  You can do:

   gdalinfo --format hdf4

I was able to install the hdf4 development libraries and include files on
my system, rebuild GDAL --with-hdf4 and then I could open the file and
extract a data subproduct.

Best regards,
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