They also offer a utility called Ingrid which is a data processing program designed to manipulate datasets. Goddard DAAC's HDF Information Page. Apart from making it easier to exchange data between major facilities and their user base, NeXus is intended to stimulate greater cooperation in developing analysis and visualization software. The NGDC has written the hdf2men utility. This sensor provides imagery data which will enable the identification of what is generally called ocean color.
Ocean color is a catch-all for suspended sediments, algal biomass and other oceanic parameters.
Data available on line includes ocean temperature, salinity, velocity and sea surface height fields in HDF format , plus jpeg loops of selected surface fields. Simulation Model is based on ocean circulation data sets provided by Los Alamos National Laboratory and the US Naval Postgraduate School . Inc. A mission planning software application has been developed using HDF files to store all mission planning parameters. HDF was chosen because performance, storage precision, and portability were primary requirements. The software modules use HDF as their basic data format for its speed and cross platform utility.