Self-describing data format for the storage and manipulation of scalar and multidimensional data in a platform- and discipline-independent fashion
Scientific data management package (known as the "CDF Library") which allows programmers and application developers to manage and manipulate scalar, vector, and multi-dimensional data arrays
Transparent access to data and metadata through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) - no low level I/O's required
Built-in support for data compression (RLE, gZIP, Huffman) and automatic data uncompression
Large file support (> 2GBytes)
CDF library includes a suite of tools that allow users to manipulate CDF files
Announcements
09/01/2011: Our CDFsupport email address is changing.... Please use the new one gsfc-cdf-support@lists.nasa.gov to contact us.
10/03/2011: CDF V3.3.1.1 is released. To view and download the latest CDF release V3.3.1.1.
01/19/2012: A preliminary with further modifications (beta) CDF release V3.3.2 including leap
second support is now available for users needing immediate access to this
capability. Please see our requirements analysis
and development approach for more details.
CDF supports C# programming language on
Windows. APIs for C#-CDF are now available
here. Bugs in the previous release
were fixed. Or, based on the CDF V3.3.2 Beta version
Beta Version C#
