This notebook shows my exploration of the HDF5 format for saving data. It is based by the book Python and HDF5 by Andrew Collette. The benefits of using a HDF5 fileformat is that it acts similar to a ...

ABSTRACT: With the size of astronomical data archives continuing to increase at an enormous rate, the providers and end users of astronomical data sets will benefit from effective data compression ...

After a clean install of netCDF4-0.9.6 (hdf5-1.8.7,netcdf-4.1.3,Python 2.7.1,numpy 1.6.1) I get the following (see below) hiccup when running the tests. If I set HDF5_DISABLE_VERSION_CHECK=1 (as ...

The HDF Group has example code for access and visualization of MODIS, GLAS HDF5, AMSR-E, and NISE data in MATLAB, IDL, Python, and NCL.