Built-In File Conversion Facilities

All of the InfoPACK routines will read any of the formats supported by GDAL, but not all of these support writing so the default is to write images in the InfoSAR format.

NetCDF files can be converted to other standard image formats using the Export Image item on the main File menu of the InfoPACK GUI; see section 5.3.1 for more details.

File Import: Conversion to NetCDF Format

Conversion to NetCDF format is provided via the Import item on the main File menu. This supports a wide variety of standard image formats. You will be prompted for the file to be imported and for the converted filename (default suffix .nc). The input file format is taken from the input filename suffix. If the format is recognised, the data will be converted to NetCDF format in the output file.

You will not normally need to import non-NetCDF files before processing them; they will be loaded provided that their format is recognised.

File Export

NetCDF files can be converted to other standard image formats using the Export Image item on the Tools menu; see section 5.3.1 for details.

Alternatively, the routine gdal_translate may be run from a command line. Specific routines to output raw data (nc2raw.py), ascii ( nc2ascii.py) and TIFF bitmap (totiff.py and makebitmap) files are also provided. Details of these routines and, in particular, the supported file formats are given in Appendix B.