Abstract:
The objective of this project is to develop generalized two-way data format
translators (EOSGIS) between HDF-EOS and ARC/INFO format. The EOSGIS
translators will be able to translate HDF-EOS swath, grid and point data to
ARC/INFO coverage and grid formats, or vice versa. The translators will be
developed using C language to access HDF-EOS and ARC/INFO data. The developed
... translators will be distributed on the World Wide Web as public domain software
and users will be able to directly download translators and their
documentation.
This project will facilitate data distribution, sharing and utilization. It
will enhance global change research and broaden the usage of HDF-EOS data to
non-global change communities. The availability of HDF-EOS data to GIS will
increase EOS data analysis power since GIS is a power tool for global change
research. After EOSGIS translators are added to HDF-EOS tools, they will
increase the data ingestion capability of EOSDIS and help global change
researers on data integration and analysis.
Using the three HDF-EOS models and the ARC/INFO data formats as a basis, we
developed EOSGIS two-way translators. The translators written in C are
generalized programs that can translate any HDF-EOS data. Grid and swath models
are translated to ARC/INFO grid ASCII and GeoTIFF formats; and the point model
is translated to the ArcView shape point format. 
