如何用HDF5文件制作RasterBrick？ [R

Question

How can one make a Rasterbrick in R from several hdf5 files? Often, data are provided in hdf5 format and one has to convert it to a more friendly format for easy handling.

At the moment I know of the rhdf5 package but how to get a RasterBrick is that which I am unsure about.

source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("rhdf5")
library("rhdf5")
library("raster")

You can access several hdf5 files on this link http://mirador.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/mirador/cart.pl?C1=GPM_3IMERGHH&CGISESSID=fb3b45e091f081aba8823f3e3f85a7d9&LBT_THRESHOLD=4000000 .

You can use two files for illustration.

Thanks!

AT.

Answer 1

One option is using gdalUtils to convert the hdf5 files into GTiff . Once you did that you can read them in a stack. Here is an example code:

# list all the `hdf5` files 
files <- list.files(path=".", pattern=paste(".*.h5",sep=""), all.files=FALSE, full.names=TRUE)
#choose the band that you want using the sds[] option and write GTiff files.
  for (i in (files)) {
  sds <- get_subdatasets(i)
  r2 <- gdal_translate(sds[1], dst_dataset =paste(i,".tif",sep=""))}