This example code illustrates how to access and visualize a NASA PO.DAAC AQUARIUS Level-3 Gridded HDF5 results file of Simulated Sea Surface Salinity
(*$TestPath="/Users/sdickson/Documents/test/HDF";SetDirectory[$TestPath];*)
Clear[]
In[]:=
$TestPath=FileNameJoin[{$HomeDirectory,"Documents","SPD_Viz","HDFEOS"}];
SetDirectory[NotebookDirectory[]];
AQUAfilename="Q20111212011151.L3m_MO_SCISM_V1.0_SSS_1deg.h5";
Import[AQUAfilename,"Elements"]
{Annotations,Data,DataEncoding,DataFormat,Datasets,Dimensions}
Transpose[{Import[AQUAfilename,"Datasets"],Import[AQUAfilename,"DataFormat"]}]
{{/l3m_data,Real32},{/palette,UnsignedInteger8}}
Import the dataset “/l3m_data”
l3mData=Import[AQUAfilename,{"Datasets","/l3m_data"}];
{latdim,londim}=Dimensions[l3mData]
{180,360}
Import[AQUAfilename,"Annotations"]
{{Scalinglinear