How can I export a shapefile to netCDF?

Question

I have a shapefile of the worlds biomes

• Terrestrial Ecoregional Boundaries Shapefile (TNC), 12/14/09, 50MB download from available from http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/ecoregional.shapefile

I would like to export it as a raster file; preferably a netCDF file with the MsTMIP format standard.

Ultimately, I could work with a netCDF that keeps metadata from the shapefile, or even a csv with no metadata. I can generate the .csv myself, but I expect that existing tools will do much of the work for me. Do they exist?

Answer 1

Use ogr2ogr to convert it to GMT vector format, and then convert it using GMT to netCDF with all metadata saved.