[gdal-dev] HDF5 COSMO-SKYMED metadata problems

[Antonio Valentino]

Hi Alex,
sorry for not responding before but I was a little busy yesterday.
Also a big thank you to Frank for updating the HDF5 driver.


Il giorno Wed, 8 Jun 2011 18:23:59 -0300
Alex Mantaut <alexmantaut at suremptec.com.ar> ha scritto:

> Sorry, I accidentalñy pressed the "send" button
> 
> Another issue. Does anybody has the COSMO-SKYMED HDF5 format
> specification or something that tells how to get the georreference
> information from those files?
> 

COSMO SkyMed handbook:
http://www.e-geos.it/products/pdf/csk-product%20handbook.pdf

Other relevant docs:
http://www.e-geos.it/products/cosmo.html

Demo Products:
http://www.e-geos.it/products/demos.html


> 
> 2011/6/8 Alex Mantaut <alexmantaut at suremptec.com.ar>
> 
> > I tried the patch warmerdam posted on the 1.8.0 version an it
> > worked, i can see the root metadata now.
> > Thanks Antonio Valentino and Frank Warmerdam for the swift
> > correction.
> >
> > Another issue. Does anybody has the COSMO-SKYMED HDF5
> >
> >
> >
> > 2011/6/7 Alex Mantaut <alexmantaut at suremptec.com.ar>
> >
> >> Antonio:
> >>            Thanks for the swift answer. I've tried to apply the
> >> patch to gdal 1.8 but it fails on the 5º chunk (hdf5dataset.cpp
> >> from line  598) I looked at the code and it seems significantly
> >> diffrent (perhaps this class was modified since the patch was
> >> released a year ago?) Can you release a newer version of the patch
> >> please?
> >>
> >>  Vi ringrazio un'altra volta
> >>
> >>  2011/6/7 Antonio Valentino <antonio.valentino at tiscali.it>
> >>
> >>> 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


regards

-- 
Antonio Valentino