I am working with NetCDF files using R & Matlab and I would like to know if the GIS community is using them. I know that ArcGIS can open & display, however most of the times the results are not good, since the structure of the netcdf files is always different.
I would like to know what kind of software/add-ons are you using to open & display netcdf files? do you extract any geographic+time series info?
Best Answer
What I do in R is use the
ncdfpackage to read the data into R, which puts the data into a multidimensional array. Then I use theplyrpackage combined with basic R tools to perform any processing steps (temporal average, extract timeseries). Finally, I visualize my results using theggplot2package. For more information on spatial data in R, please visit the R Spatial Taskview. A particularly interesting package for satellite raster data is therasterpackage.