[GRASS-user] Newbie adding additional modules?

[Barry Baker]

Thank you Hamish, David and Nagesh for your prompt suggestions on how to fix
my problem with outputting Netcdf files.

Best,
Barry


On 6/26/06 10:20 PM, "Hamish" <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Barry Baker wrote:
> 
>> It has been nearly 16 years since I used Grass and now coming back.
>> I have GRASS up and running on my Mac PowerBook G4 with OS X 10.4.6
> 
> !!
>  
>> Now I am trying to install the r.out.netcdf module and am at a loss as
>> to how to go about it.  Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Unless r.out.netcdf is packaged for the new GRASS 6.1 Extension Manager
> (GEM), and I'm pretty sure it isn't, you will need the full grass source
> code to compile it.
> 
> after ./configure, make of source code,
> 
> mkdir raster/r.out.netcdf/
> cd raster/r.out.netcdf/
> cp r.out.netcdf_source_files/* .
> make
> 
> 
> alternatively and probably simpler, use r.out.gdal for NetCDF output:
> 
> GRASS> gdalinfo --formats
>   GMT (rw): GMT NetCDF Grid Format
>   netCDF (ro): network Common Data Format
> 
> In my old version of GDAL, the GMT version is only one which it can
> write to. I'm not sure what the latest version can do.
> 
> http://www.gdal.org/formats_list.html
> 
> another indirect way is to use r.out.mat to make a Matlab array and
> to save a NetCDF file from there. (r.out.mat is untested on big-endian
> AFAIK, if that doesn't work use raw r.out.bin -> Matlab)
> 
> If you are looking to send output to GMT, there are other options &
> scripts that can be used. see r.out.gmt on the wiki add-ons page and:
>  http://169.237.35.250/~dylan/grass_user_group/#GMT_and_GRASS-overview
> 
> 
> 
> Hamish

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