CODA

"The Common Data Access toolbox (CODA) provides a set of interfaces for reading remote sensing data from earth observation data files. These interfaces consist of command line applications, libraries, interfaces to scientific applications (such as IDL and MATLAB), and interfaces to programming languages (such as C, Fortran, Python, and Java).

CODA provides a single interface to access data in a wide variety of data formats, including ASCII, binary, XML, netCDF, HDF4, HDF5, CDF, GRIB, RINEX, and SP3. This is done by using a generic high level type hierarchy mapping for each data format. For self describing formats such as netCDF, HDF, and GRIB, CODA will automatically construct this mapping based on the file itself. For raw ASCII and binary (and partially also XML) formats CODA makes use of an external format definition stored in .codadef files to determine this mapping. On the download section of this website you will find .codadef files for various earth observation missions that can be used with CODA.

The CODA software is used as core data access component in various software applications, such as the Basic Envisat Atmospheric Toolbox (BEAT) the Basic Radar Altimetry Toolbox (BRAT), and several ESA internal quality control tools."

http://stcorp.nl/coda/

https://github.com/stcorp/coda

https://github.com/stcorp/coda-examples