HdfExplorer reads HDF files. To open a file just choose the File Open command menu. After the file is opened, the kind of data it contains is shown in the form of tree items, using the Microsoft Windows tree control. Each kind of HDF data has its own associated icon.
In this example a file called test.hdf was opened. Each HDF file is placed under a root item with the name of the file.
To browse the HDF file just click on the expandable tree item. The tree will show the corresponding sub-items. In this example a SDS item was expanded to show the SDS
atributes.
To visualize your data click with the mouse right-button on the selected tree item. A menu will appear that lists the kind of views available for that HDF data type. The HDF data format can store images, text, and numeric arrays. HdfExplorer shows each data object accordingly. There are mainly two types of views in HdfExplorer: a grid view, where the numbers are displayed in a rectangular grid of values, and image views, where the numbers are translated into a map of colors. For the SDS data object a third kind of view is available, the vector view.
After the view is opened the tree contents of the selected item turn to a bold face. When the view is closed the tree contents revert to the normal face.
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