Comprehensive Examples

This page provides comprehensive examples on how to access and visualize various NASA HDF/HDF-EOS files using IDL ^®, MATLAB^® and NCL. Other tools and programming languages examples can be found here.

Please read this special note first before you proceed further.

For a list of examples for the different data centers, click on the examples in the table below.

NASA Data Centers Product Examples using different tools GESDISC [Examples] LAADS [Examples] LP DAAC [Examples] LaRC [Examples] NSIDC [Examples] PO.DAAC [Examples] Ocean Biology Processing Group [Examples] GHRC [Examples] ICESat-2 [Examples]

Table 1: Sample Data Files and Code Examples

We also provide examples for other data centers that produce HDF4 files.

Other Data Centers Product Examples using different tools CDPC Product Type File Codes Plots Note CloudSAT Swath 2010128055614_21420_CS_2B-GEOPROF_GRANULE_P_R04_E03.hdf NCL MATLAB IDL NCL MATLAB IDL Ocean Productivity [Examples]

Table 2: Sample Data Files and Code Examples from Other Data Centers

We also extracted and documented information for sample HDF-EOS2/HDF4 and HDF-EOS5 files that are useful to determine the EOS contents stored in the sample files. Please click here for HDF-EOS2/HDF4 and here for HDF-EOS5 to read comprehensive description and retrieve sample files.

Last modified: 11/17/2011