PDS4 data products consist of an XML label and one or more data files. If you have an appropriate reader, it is not necessary to know the details of the underlying format (ASCII, binary, array, table).
Several software packages exist for working with PDS4 data:
- Python PDS4 tools
- includes a library and/or standalone reader (PDS4 Viewer)
- ReadPDS (for PDS4)
- an IDL library for working with PDS4 data
- Transform
- a java tool to convert between different PDS and non PDS formats
- PDS4 tools
- a java library and example driver
- PDSView
- an in-development viewer for both PDS3 and PDS4 data