[CF-metadata] CF compliant Graphics?

From: Russ Rew <russ>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:34:08 -0600

Tom,

> I've gone to all the trouble of creating CF compliant netcdf
> files. I assume that this is to allow graphics programs and other
> software to easily use the included metadata. What are such
> packages? Is there a fancier version of the Matlab mexcdf toolbox
> which does tricks like overloading the matlab datenum functions to
> use the attributes of CF time units? Datetick(nc{`time'})
> or just Datetick(nc) ?

In addition to Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer (and the alpha version
of the netCDF Java library it uses), plans are for version 9.2 of
ESRI's GIS software, available about January 2006, to be able to read
and write CF-compliant netCDF data.

--Russ
Received on Thu Apr 21 2005 - 14:34:08 BST