id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc 2584,NetCDF Global EASE-Grid 8-day Blended SSM/I and MODIS Snow Cover flipped east/west?,Markus Neteler,warmerdam,"Importing maps from leads to the funny effect that east/west are flipped. Note that some funky characters are reported by gdalinfo below. Procedure: {{{ wget ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/pub/DATASETS/snow/nsidc0321v01/north/NL.2004.nsidc0321v01.nc gdalinfo NL.2004.nsidc0321v01.nc Warning 1: No UNIDATA NC_GLOBAL:Conventions attribute Driver: netCDF/Network Common Data Format Files: NL.2004.nsidc0321v01.nc Size is 512, 512 Coordinate System is `' Metadata: NC_GLOBAL#creation_date=Wed Feb 20 13:19:33 MST 2008 NC_GLOBAL#grid_id=Nl NC_GLOBAL#references=Data set documentation: http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0321.html NC_GLOBAL#comment=Not set at this time NC_GLOBAL#source=Satellite observations from DMSP SSM/I and Terra MODIS NC_GLOBAL#institution=National Snow & Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO NC_GLOBAL#title=Global EASE-Grid 8-day Blended SSM/I and MODIS Snow Cover NC_GLOBAL#history=Wed Feb 20 13:20:20 2008: ncrcat -O NL.2004001.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004009.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004017.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004025.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004033.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004041.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004049.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004057.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004065.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004073.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004081.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004089.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004097.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004105.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004113.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004121.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004129.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004137.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004145.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004153.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004161.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004169.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004177.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004185.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004193.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004201.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004209.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004217.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004225.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004233.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004241.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004249.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004257.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004265.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004273.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004281.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004289.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004297.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004305.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004313.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004321.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004329.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004337.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004345.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004353.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004361.nsidc0321v01.nc NL.2004.nsidc0321v01.nc NC_GLOBAL#nco_openmp_thread_number=1 Subdatasets: SUBDATASET_1_NAME=NETCDF:""NL.2004.nsidc0321v01.nc"":bpInfo SUBDATASET_1_DESC=[46x81] bpInfo (XÄ���ر����enmp_thread_num���) SUBDATASET_2_NAME=NETCDF:""NL.2004.nsidc0321v01.nc"":scaInfo SUBDATASET_2_DESC=[46x81] scaInfo (XÄ���ر����enmp_thread_num���) SUBDATASET_3_NAME=NETCDF:""NL.2004.nsidc0321v01.nc"":latitude SUBDATASET_3_DESC=[721x721] latitude (64-bit floating-point) SUBDATASET_4_NAME=NETCDF:""NL.2004.nsidc0321v01.nc"":longitude SUBDATASET_4_DESC=[721x721] longitude (64-bit floating-point) SUBDATASET_5_NAME=NETCDF:""NL.2004.nsidc0321v01.nc"":SWE SUBDATASET_5_DESC=[46x721x721] lwe_thickness_of_surface_snow_amount (8-bit integer) SUBDATASET_6_NAME=NETCDF:""NL.2004.nsidc0321v01.nc"":SCA SUBDATASET_6_DESC=[46x721x721] surface_snow_area_fraction (8-bit integer) Corner Coordinates: Upper Left ( 0.0, 0.0) Lower Left ( 0.0, 512.0) Upper Right ( 512.0, 0.0) Lower Right ( 512.0, 512.0) Center ( 256.0, 256.0) Warning 1: Unable to save auxilary information in NL.2004.nsidc0321v01.nc.aux.xml. # 8-day Snow-Covered Area (SCA) gdal_translate NETCDF:""NL.2004.nsidc0321v01.nc"":SCA /tmp/sca.tif qgis /tmp/sca.tif -> see attachment }}} The projection is described here: http://nsidc.org/data/ease/ease_grid.htm (and looks better than what QGIS sees). A bug? Markus",defect,closed,normal,,GDAL_Raster,svn-trunk,normal,fixed,netcdf,dnadeau