<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Deb,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I didn&#39;t see an answer to this one, so I&#39;ll take a stab at it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">NCL cannot open these files directly, but you might be able to use the free GDAL software to work with it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">As an example, you can take a JPEG image, use &quot;gdal_translate&quot; to convert it to NetCDF, and then plot with NCL. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">See example topo_9.ncl at:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/topo.shtml#ex9">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/topo.shtml#ex9</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">I don&#39;t know if gdal_translate can handle the ovr tif files, but its worth looking into:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.gdal.org/gdal_translate.html">http://www.gdal.org/gdal_translate.html</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Another possibility: if your files are actually available as shapefiles (.shp, .shx, .dbf) files, then you can open these directly with NCL using &quot;addfile&quot;. See this page for some examples:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/shapefiles.shtml">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/shapefiles.shtml</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:26 AM, debasish mazumder <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:debasish@ucar.edu" target="_blank">debasish@ucar.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi All,<br>
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I have some files with following extension *.tif, *.tif.aux.xml and<br>
*.tif.ovr.<br>
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Format description says ESRI Arc/View ShapeFile.<br>
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Is there any way to open these files in NCL?<br>
<br>
<br>
with regards<br>
<br>
-Deb<br>
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