[GRASS-user] question about gdal

[Hamish]

Michael wrote:
> I'm working with reading NetCDF files. gdal does an
> admirable job of this.
> Many of the NetCDF climate data files have many bands and I'd
> like import only some of them. Specifying a particular NetCDF
> SUBSET will allow gdal to read the data for a particular
> variable.


fyi, see also the GRASS wiki & gdal help:

http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/NetCDF
http://www.gdal.org/frmt_netcdf.html


the HDF format usage may be similar(?) some examples of that:
  http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/AVHRR
  http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/MODIS


good luck,
Hamish