Useful Links

HEG Users: DAACs

• Land Processes DAAC (Distributed Active Archive Center)
• Langley Atmospheric Research Center DAAC
• National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC
• Goddard Earth Science DAAC

HEG Users: Others

 (To be detailed in the future. If you'd like to demonstrate an example of your work, please let us know)

Information about Formats

• HDF4/HDF5 (Hierarchical Data Format)

• HDF-EOS (HDF extension for EOS Data)
• HDF-EOS Documentation
• Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
• GeoTIFF (Georeferenced TIFF)

Map Projections

• USGS Map Projections 

Open Source GIS/Viewers

• OpenEV: Application for viewing and analysing raster and vector geospatial data
• FWTools: Open Source GIS Binary Kit forWindows and Linux FWTools
• GRASS: Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS)
• XV

Proprietary GIS

• ENVI: RSI
• ArcGIS: ESRI
• ERDAS
• PCI Geomatics

Other Tools

• HDFView: Visual tool for browsing and editing THG HDF4 and HDF5 files
• HDF-EOS Plugins for HDFView (downloads) Plugins
• HDFView HDF-EOS Plug-in HDF-EOS Plug-in
• HDF-EOS Tools and Information Center
• Toolkit/HDF-EOS
• ncdump: generates an ASCII representation of HDF files
• GDAL