Re: How can i load .hdf files

[Mike Miller]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 05:20:03 -0800, anandreum wrote:
> Good morning! I'm starting with Octave. I've been using Matlab for long time,
> but I want to change to open source programs. I mostly use Matlab to process
> and analyze remote sensed images (from MODIS, Landsat, ... satellites). Some
> of the products of this sensors come in .hdf formats...there's some way to
> open them with Octave? (like the hdfread order from Matlab). I know that it
> is possible to read hdf5, but i can not with MODIS.hdf products (like
> MOD13A1.A2015129.h08v05.005.2015146085911.hdf file, for example).
> 
> when i do 
> >load MOD13A1.A2015129.h08v05.005.2015146085911.hdf
> 
> it did not give me an error message, but any variable appears in the
> variable list, neither when i ask "whos". 

The h5read function is not yet implemented in Octave, but there has been
some work to add this function (as well as h5create, h5write, etc).

For now you may try using this project:
https://github.com/tmullins/hdf5oct

-- 
mike