HDF File Extension - Open .HDF files

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.HDF File Extension

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File Type

Hierarchical Data Format File

Category

Data Files

Common?

File Description

Standardized file format for storing scientific data; used in Environmental Science, Non-Destructive Testing, Neutron Scattering, and Aerospace fields; HDF utilities can manipulate, view, analyze, visualize, and convert scientific data from HDF files.

Two commonly used versions of HDF include HDF4 and HDF5; each version includes software libraries that contain functions for analyzing and manipulating the data in HDF files.

The The National Center for Supercomputing Applications has a list of NCSA HDF Utilities that can read and process HDF files.

Program(s) that open hdf files