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I want to know how to translate a netcdf file to a binary file IN PYTHON. I have some timeseries data in a netcdf file. I want to change it to a binary file so that I can run TIMESAT to extract phenological metrics.

Has someone already solved this problem? Or can I use Arcmap to build models to do this process?

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    You can read a NetCDF file with e.g. the NetCDF4 package, and write data in binary format with open(...., "wb"). Commented Oct 28, 2017 at 13:28
  • don't forget too that you can calculate a lot of useful metrics directly on the netcdf file itself using CDO from the command line Commented Aug 3, 2020 at 8:25

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NCO converts netCDF to binary as illustrated here, e.g., 

ncks -C -O -v one_dmn_rec_var -b bnr.dat -p ~/nco/data in.nc out.nc
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You can just use gdal_translate to convert from netcdf to binary. See: http://web.nateko.lu.se/timesat/timesat.asp?cat=5 and http://www.gdal.org/gdal_translate.html

My favorite way to install gdal is with conda. Download anaconda or miniconda and for free from https://www.anaconda.com/ and then do:

conda install -c conda-forge gdal
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Thanks for the response, basiclly I know Timesat well, but for gdal_translate, I don'tn know how to use fot data conversion especially I need from NETCDF to BINARY. Do you have examples? or give me more information about how to use gdal_translate. Thanks!

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