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What tools do you use to analyze SORCE data?

All of the SORCE standard data products are written using the HDF5 file format. HDF5 is relatively new, and it should be noted that it is not compatible with previous releases of HDF (versions 4.x and earlier). Thus, software created for HDF4 cannot read HDF5 files (though there are conversion tools going either direction, see h5toh4 below).

The NCSA developers of HDF5 have created several freely available tools for accessing files written in HDF5. They are not meant as a data analysis tools for SORCE data, rather they are simple tools for dumping or browsing generic data. They are available pre-compiled for most major operating systems.

HDFView

A Java-based tool for browsing and editing NCSA HDF4 and HDF5 files.

h5dump

Enables the user to examine the contents of an HDF5 file and dump those contents to an ASCII file.

h5ls

Lists selected information about file objects in the specified format.

h4toh5

Convert any HDF4 file to HDF5, using default mappings.

h5toh4

Converts an HDF5 file into an HDF4 file (not necessarily an inverse of h4toh5).

Other tools that can access HDF5 data files include both freeware and commercial software packages. They are listed on the NCSA's "Software using HDF5" web page.

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