Hi steven,
Thank you for confirmation but do  you use command based or GUI FWTools.

Thank you very much in advance.

VIkram.

On 1/30/2012 7:10 PM, steven mosher wrote:
> I can confirm that FWtools on windows 7 does work in  turning Modis 
> HDF to   Tif
>
> I just finished doing about a terabyte of Modis Albedo.
>
> However,  the projection information had to be added after I read the 
> tif into Raster
>
> Steve
>
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Matteo Mattiuzzi 
> <matteo.mattiuzzi@boku.ac.at <mailto:matteo.mattiuzzi@boku.ac.at>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Vikram,
>
>     I probably gave you some wrong informations in my mails.
>     I'm using Windows only rarly, and so little confused in this matter.
>     It is right, gdal doesn't support hdf4 files on Windows, but the
>     gdal in FWTools should support it.
>     It is plan to implement it in the MODIS package but it is not
>     available now.
>     This weekend i was looking at quick alternatives, but i hadn't any
>     success.
>     Probably the fastest way is to use FWTools directly (but i have
>     never use it) or to shift to a Linux system (if you have it ready).
>
>     Sorry for the erroneous information in our discussion.
>
>     Matteo
>
>     ----- Reply message -----
>     Von: "Vikram Ranga" <babuawara@gmail.com <mailto:babuawara@gmail.com>>
>     An: "Matteo Mattiuzzi" <matteo.mattiuzzi@boku.ac.at
>     <mailto:matteo.mattiuzzi@boku.ac.at>>
>     Cc: <r-sig-geo@r-project.org <mailto:r-sig-geo@r-project.org>>
>     Betreff: Antw: Re: [R-sig-Geo] HDF format
>     Datum: Mo., Jan. 30, 2012 13:06
>
>
>     Hi Matteo,
>     The gdalinfo --verison of my fwtools is
>     C:/>gdalinfo --verison
>     GDAL 1.7.0b2, FWTools 2.4.7, released 2010/01/19
>     My cmd has
>     C:/>gdalinfo --verison
>     GDAL 1.9.0, released 2011/12/29.
>     But R still not successful in reading hdf
>     >sds<-getSDS("C:/../../AST_09_00304012003053127....87.hdf")
>     > sds
>     $SDSnames
>     NULL
>
>     $SDS4gdal
>     NULL
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Vikram.
>
>
>
>     On 1/27/2012 4:33 PM, Matteo Mattiuzzi wrote:
>     > FWTools uses a GDAL version older than 1.8.0 take care and check
>     > it with 'gdalinfo --version'. This would mean that all your
>     GTiff > files have an offset of half a pixel!!
>     > If 'gdalinfo --version' tells you something like that:
>     > C:\>gdalinfo --version
>     > GDAL 1.7.0b2, FWTools 2.4.7, released 2010/01/19
>     > Than I would check the output tif files accuratly.
>     > I did not understand your last lines on the cmd path changing.
>     Be sure > to fix this problem may this helps you out: >
>     http://php.scripts.psu.edu/jzl5325/wordpress/?p=60
>     >
>     > >>> Vikram Ranga <babuawara@gmail.com
>     <mailto:babuawara@gmail.com>> 1/27/2012 4:04 pm >>>
>     > Hi Matteo,
>     > Ok, When I type on the cmd it is something like that
>     > C:\Users\vikram>gdalinfo the output is
>     > 'gdalinfo' is not recognised as an internal or external command,
>     > operable program or batch file.
>     > But I installed FWTools with it command prompt I tried,
>     > C:\Program Files (x86)\FWtools2.4.7. The output is same as you
>     have shown
>     > C:\Program Files (x86)\FWtools2.4.7>gdalinfo
>     > Usage: gdalinfo [--help-general] [-mm] [-stats] [-hist] [-nogcp]
>     [-nomd]
>     >                 [-norat] [-noct] [-checksum] [-mdd domain]*
>     datasetname
>     > I tried to change the path of cmd  to C:\Program/ Files (x86),
>     to > Program Files, to C:\ , to C:\Windows\sysWOW64\ but the output is
>     > 'gdalinfo' is not recognised as an internal or external command,
>     > operable program or batch file.
>     >
>     > Thank you very much Matteo for your work.
>     >
>     > Regards,
>     >
>     > Vikram.
>     >
>     > On 1/27/2012 1:56 PM, Matteo Mattiuzzi wrote:
>     >> Hi Vikram, I had to leave yesterday but I'm back at office now,
>     >> please post always the exact console outputs. The output of >>
>     'gdalinfo' should be something like that:
>     >> C:\>gdalinfo
>     >> Usage: gdalinfo [--help-general] [-mm] [-stats] [-hist]
>     [-nogcp] [-nomd]
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