hdf - Summary of MATLAB HDF4 capabilities

Description

The MATLAB software provides a set of low-level functions that enable you to access the HDF4 library developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). For information about HDF4, go to the HDF Web page at http://www.hdfgroup.org.

The following table lists all the HDF4 application programming interfaces (APIs) supported by MATLAB with the name of the MATLAB function used to access the API. To use these functions, you must be familiar with the HDF library. For more information about using these MATLAB functions, see Working with Scientific Data Formats.

Application Programming Interface

Description

MATLAB Function

Annotations

Stores, manages, and retrieves text used to describe an HDF file or any of the data structures contained in the file.

hdfan

General Raster Images

Stores, manages, and retrieves raster images, their dimensions and palettes. It can also manipulate unattached palettes.

Note: Use the MATLAB functions imread and imwrite with HDF raster image formats.

hdfdf24, hdfdfr8

HDF-EOS

Provides functions to read HDF-EOS grid (GD), point (PT), and swath (SW) data.

hdfgd, hdfpt, hdfsw

HDF Utilities

Provides functions to open and close HDF files and handle errors.

hdfh, hdfhd, hdfhe

MATLAB HDF Utilities

Provides utility functions that help you work with HDF files in the MATLAB environment.

hdfml

Scientific Data

Stores, manages, and retrieves multidimensional arrays of character or numeric data, along with their dimensions and attributes.

hdfsd

V Groups

Creates and retrieves groups of other HDF data objects, such as raster images or V data.

hdfv

V Data

Stores, manages, and retrieves multivariate data stored as records in a table.

hdfvf, hdfvh, hdfvs

See Also

hdfinfo,hdfread, hdftool, imread

  


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