Plotting of Modis satellite data in HDF format using grads

[Jayakrishnan PR]

Thanks a lot. It worked. Now I have to check this with my data. I hope it
will also  work.

On Nov 30, 2007 8:43 PM, moctar Camara <moctar.camara at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> HI,
> I succed in plotting modis aerosol hdf data using grads. I just write a
> descriptor file and  it was ok.To write the descriptor file, you will need
> to use ncdump for hdf to know the structure of your data. I've attached a
> descriptor file and an hdf file as an example.
> Hope it helps
>
> Moctar
>
> *Jayakrishnan PR <prjayakrishnan at GMAIL.COM>* a écrit :
>
> Dear All,
> I am now working in MODIS satellite data. The data is in HDF-SDS
> format. I want to plot the data using grads, directly. Now I cannot plot
> the
> data using gradshdf. I dont know the reason. I converted that data into
> ascii and then I converted it into staion data, and using station grads I
> have plotted the data. Now I can plot the colored map of each satellite
> pass
> using station data.
> I am working in Linux platform ( ubuntu 6.1 version) with grads 1.9b4.
>
>
> Now my question is that can I plot the same data which is in hdf
> format, directly in gradshdf..?. I have tried it but it dont worked. If it
> is possible it will be a great thing for me because I can skip converting
> into ascii, and then station format and plotting. I have heard the COARDS
> convention for hdf data..? Is MODIS data following COARDS convention..?
> Any help is much appreciated....!!!!
> looking forward
> Jayakrishnan.P.R
> Junior Research Fellow
> Department of Atmospheric Sciences
> Cochin University of Science And Technology (CUSAT),
>
> Cochin-16, Kerala, India
>
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