id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 2758 HDF4 reading MISR Level 3 with incorrect dimension ilucena warmerdam "The first sub-dataset indicates the existence of 4 dimensions as shown by gdalinfo: {{{ % gdalinfo MISR_AM1_CGAS_MAY_2007_F15_0031.hdf ... Subdatasets: SUBDATASET_1_NAME=HDF4_EOS:EOS_GRID:""MISR_AM1_CGAS_MAY_2007_F15_0031.hdf"":AerosolParameterAverage:Absorbing optical depth SUBDATASET_1_DESC=[360x720x9x4] Absorbing optical depth AerosolParameterAverage (32-bit floating-point) ... }}} As I translate the whole sub-dataset to GTIFF it creates 9 bands: {{{ % gdal_translate ""HDF4_EOS:EOS_GRID:MISR_AM1_CGAS_MAY_2007_F15_0031.hdf:AerosolParameterAverage:Absorbing optical depth"" May_2007.tif -sds Input file size is 720, 360 0...10...20...30...40...50...60...70...80...90...100 - done. % gdalinfo May_2007.tif ... Image Structure Metadata: INTERLEAVE=PIXEL Corner Coordinates: Upper Left (-180.0000000, 90.0000000) (180d 0'0.00""W, 90d 0'0.00""N) Lower Left (-180.0000000, -90.0000000) (180d 0'0.00""W, 90d 0'0.00""S) Upper Right ( 180.0000000, 90.0000000) (180d 0'0.00""E, 90d 0'0.00""N) Lower Right ( 180.0000000, -90.0000000) (180d 0'0.00""E, 90d 0'0.00""S) Center ( 0.0000000, 0.0000000) ( 0d 0'0.01""E, 0d 0'0.01""N) Band 1 Block=720x1 Type=Float32, ColorInterp=Gray NoData Value=-9999 Band 2 Block=720x1 Type=Float32, ColorInterp=Undefined NoData Value=-9999 Band 3 Block=720x1 Type=Float32, ColorInterp=Undefined NoData Value=-9999 Band 4 Block=720x1 Type=Float32, ColorInterp=Undefined NoData Value=-9999 Band 5 Block=720x1 Type=Float32, ColorInterp=Undefined NoData Value=-9999 Band 6 Block=720x1 Type=Float32, ColorInterp=Undefined NoData Value=-9999 Band 7 Block=720x1 Type=Float32, ColorInterp=Undefined NoData Value=-9999 Band 8 Block=720x1 Type=Float32, ColorInterp=Undefined NoData Value=-9999 Band 9 Block=720x1 Type=Float32, ColorInterp=Undefined NoData Value=-9999 }}} But by looking at the image it seams like it got dimensions wrong. There are just vertical stripes along the image. Sample dataset are available at: http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/PRODOCS/misr/level3/level3_CGAS_small.html This particular one came from: ftp://l4ftl01.larc.nasa.gov/MISR/MIL3MAE.004/2007.05.01/ " defect closed normal closed_because_of_github_migration GDAL_Raster unspecified normal wontfix HDF4 rprinceley