Re: [Matplotlib-users] MODIS data and true-color plotting

[Jeff W. <js...@fa...>]

On 11/13/11 12:40 PM, Gökhan Sever wrote:
> Hello groups,
>
> I have two questions about working with MODIS data.
>
> 1-) Is there any light Pythonic HDF-EOS wrapper to handle HDF-EOS data 
> other than PyNIO [http://www.pyngl.ucar.edu/Nio.shtml] Although, I 
> have managed to install that package from its source, it took me many 
> hours to figure out all the installation quirks. Something simpler to 
> build and mainly for HDFEOS data??

Gökhan:  netcdf4-python can read hdf5-eos files, and even hdf4-eos files 
if the netcdf C lib is built with hdf4 support.

-Jeff
>
> 2-) Another similar question: Has anybody attempted to create 
> true-color MODIS images (like the ones shown at 
> [http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtime/]) in Python? So far, I 
> have seen one clear tutorial 
> [ftp://ftp.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/IMAPP/MODIS/TrueColor/] to create natural 
> color images, but uses ms2gt [http://nsidc.org/data/modis/ms2gt/], 
> NDVI and IDL. Except the reflectance correction via NDVI, ms2gt and 
> IDL parts seem to be implemented in Python.
>
> Till now, I have some progress combining GOES imagery with aircraft 
> data. My next task is to combine MODIS data with aircraft and radar 
> data. I would be happy to get some guidance and code support if there 
> is any previous work been done using Python.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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