Hi All, I am struggling with the task of converting some MODIS remotes sensed image data in HDF5 format to ASCII format. I have found oblique references to the HDF format in the help files for the packages hdf5, RnetCDF, and ncdf, but nothing that appears to read in an HDF format file and produce an ASCII grid file. I am hoping to avoid having to move to another platform, and I have about 3,000 files to convert, so a batch processing option is preferable (otherwise I would use some of the freely available software packages like HDF look). Any thoughts would be most appreciated. regards Alex Phd Candidate, Centre for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change School of Marine and Tropical Biology James Cook University, Townsville Queensland, Australia, 4811