[gdal-dev] HDF5 COSMO-SKYMED metadata problems

[Antonio Valentino]

Hi Alex,

Il 07/06/2011 20:13, Alex Mantaut ha scritto:
> Hi:
> 
> I'm trying to get georreference information from an HDF5 COSMO-SKYMED file.
> 
> I used HDFView to see the file's metadata and found that in this type of
> HDF5 files the georreference information is stored in the metadata
> corresponding to the "root" of the file.
> 
> The problem is that when i try to use gdalinfo to get the file's metadata,
> it shows the metadata asociated to all the subdatasets included on the file,
> but not the root's metadata...
> 
> My cuestions: How do i get the metadata asociated to the "root" of the file?
> Is there a better way to get georreference from COSMO-SKYMED HDF5 files?
> 
> Thanks in advance

Ticket #2412 [1] has an associated patch that could be useful in your
case (i.e for retrieving metadata associated to the root group).

[1] http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2412

ciao

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Antonio Valentino