GDAL is a s a translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats.  
It used to grab data from Earthdata website (http://gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov) and convert from Geotiff to netcdf. 

GDAL installer:

MS4W (MapServer for Windows) is a popular installer that contains GDAL & its utilities, MapServer, PHP, and the Apache web server. Maintained by Gateway Geomatics. 
MS4W includes GDAL python bindings, GDAL Oracle plugin, as well as other useful commandline utilities for MapServer, Spatialite, MapCache, OpenSSL, Shapelib, PHP, and UnixUtils.
Download MS4W at:
http://www.ms4w.com/

MS4W Setup Installer v3.1.4 (released 2016-05-06)

        ms4w-3.1.4-setup.exe 145 KB



GDAL translate:

info page:  http://gdal.org/gdal_translate.html

Examples of use:

https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/4200

http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/93162/extract-longitude-and-latitude-from-geotiff-aster-30m-dem

http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/86131/how-to-convert-a-netcdf-file-to-geotiff-using-gdal

GDALinfo:
http://gdal.org/gdalinfo.html




GDAL scripting:

http://gdal.org/gdalinfo.html