Scientific Data Formats: HDF-EOS

EOS_SW_SETFILLVALUE

This function sets the fill value for the specified field. The fill value is placed in all elements of the field that have not been explicitly defined.

Syntax

Result = EOS_SW_SETFILLVALUE(swathID, fieldname, fillvalue)

Return Value

Returns SUCCEED (0) if successful and FAIL (–1) otherwise.

Arguments

swathID

Swath id (long) returned by EOS_SW_CREATE or EOS_SW__ATTACH.

fieldname

Fieldname (string).

fillvalue

The fill value to be used.

Keywords

None

Examples

In this example, we set a fill value for the "Temperature" field:

tempfill = -999.0  
status = EOS_SW_SETFILLVALUE(swathID, "Temperature", tempfill)