[gdal-dev] gdal and hdf-eos

[Chaitanya kumar CH]

Matt,

If there is a work around it's better to avoid building. HDF4 requires some
extra libraries. They are probably missing.

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Matt Funk <mafunk at nmsu.edu> wrote:

>  Hi Chaitanya,
> no, i didn't build it myself. I simply downloaded the self-installing
> package for gdal found at: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
> I am a little unfamiliar still with building stuff on windows, so i am not
> sure whether it's worth trying to build gdal and the python bindings from
> scratch or simply use h4toh5 called from the script.
>
> thanks
> matt
>
>
> On 3/3/2011 9:30 PM, Chaitanya kumar CH wrote:
>
> Matt,
>
> Did you build GDAL yourself? HDF4 format is not compiled by default. You
> can check if this by running the command "gdalinfo --formats". See if HDF4
> is in the output.
> http://www.gdal.org/frmt_hdf4.html
>
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Matt Funk <mafunk at nmsu.edu> wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>> i am using python/gdal. I am trying to open a MODIS satellite file from
>> the Terra satellite (which is hdf4-eos format). Doing:
>>         ds = gdal.Open(file)
>>         drivertype=ds.GetDriver().LongName
>>
>> returns
>>  ERROR 4:
>> `C:/tmp/SrcData/2010Data/MODISData/MOD03/MOD03.A2010002.1810.005.2010258062733.hdf'
>> not recognised as a supported file format.
>>
>> Is this file format not supported?
>>
>> thanks
>> matt
>>
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>
>
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Chaitanya kumar CH.
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