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1.8 Selected Marine Data Software
Always make sure you have the latest version of any program; usually joining a user group will insure that you are notified of updates.
Version: 2016-02-01
Program Name | Description | Links | Operating System and Other Notes |
7zip | Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR |
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AutoPlot | Interactive browser for data on the web; give it a URL or the name of a file on your computer and it tries to create a sensible plot of the contents in the file. Autoplot was developed to allow quick and interactive browsing of data and metadata files' |
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Explorer for ArcGIS and ArcGIS Explorer Desktop | 'Free GIS viewer that gives you an easy way to explore, visualize, and share GIS information' [Website} |
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ConTEXT | ASCII text editor with huge filesize capability; can edit 145 MB text files from Level 3 satellite images Do not use Notepad or Wordpad for data |
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Dapper/DChart | Allows you to visualize and download in-situ oceanographic or atmospheric data from file or OpenDap server. Features include an interactive map that is draggable, an in-situ station layer that allows you to select data stations, and a plot window that allows you to plot data from one or more stations. | Three plot types are supported (profile, property-property, and time series) and users can interact directly with the plot to pan or zoom in and out. | |
Degrib (NDFDGRIB2Decoder) | Convert GRIB to point shapes, CSV, NetCDF or raw binary |
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Environmental Data Connector | Use for advanced server exploration and data mining. Use the 'information' tools on LAS datasets to capture their URLs (or any other sources); then paste them into this program to access the datasets directly. Server compatibilities:
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FireBird | 'Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers.' | ||
FugroViewer |
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G.Projector | '[Can] transform an equirectangular map image into one of over 100 global and regional map projections. Longitude-latitude gridlines and continental outlines may be drawn on the map, and the resulting image may be saved to disk in GIF, JPEG, PDF, PNG, PS or TIFF form.' |
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GEBCOLite | Deprecated in favor of the new online version at GEBCO 2014 | ||
GEODAS-NG | New version of an old favorite program for US NGDC relief data management |
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GeoTIFF Examiner | Converts TIF to GeoTIF through world files and/or internal tags |
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Google Earth | Visualization of georeferenced data (KML and KMZ files) |
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GRASS | 'GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System), is a free and open source GIS software suite used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics and maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization.' | ||
gvSIG | Powerful, user-friendly, interoperable GIS to work in a variety of formats with vector and raster files, databases and remote services. https://everholy950.weebly.com/download-after-effects-cs6-mac-crack.html. |
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HDFView | Visualization of HDF and NetCDF grids and their internal metadata; conversion to TXT grids |
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Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) - Local Installation | Visualization of operational data of all sorts; already reads most meteorological data and product formats; good NetCDF capability, but only rudimentary HDF capability; basic OGC WMS client present, but not robust |
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Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) - Webstart Version | Same as above, but not installed locally; if you have Java JRE, then you can run the program from the publisher's site |
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IrfanView | Graphics editor |
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Java/JRE | Programming language and run-time environment | ||
Java OceanAtlas | 'JOA is a multi-OS application for viewing and exploring ocean vertical profile data. It runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux and supports a variety of data formats.' [Website] |
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JujuEdit | Text editor |
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LAS2DEM |
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Mapserver (University of Minnesota) | MapServer is an Open Source platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web. |
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MAXENT | Software for Species Habitat Modeling | 'This software takes as input a set of layers or environmental variables (such as elevation, precipitation, etc.), as well as a set of georeferenced occurrence locations, and produces a model of the range of the given species.' [From the website] - All layers use the same grid template. | |
Microsoft GIF Animator | Make animation from series of GIF images | Recommended by an ODV user for adjusting the speed of ODV animations. Apparently the standard speed is a bit too fast. | |
Nautical Chart Reprojector | 'The Digital NOAA Nautical Chart Reprojector is a stand-alone application developed to reproject raster NOAA nautical charts. Approximately 30 projections are available, and the ability to change datums is included.' | ||
ncBrowse | Quick-look browsing of NetCDF files (station or grid formats); can also browse CDF files |
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NOTEPAD++ | Notepad++ is a free source code that supports several languages. Can handle very large files. Do not use Notepad or Wordpad for data. |
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Ocean Data View | Most popular data visualization and management program for marine station data (scalars and vectors) |
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Ocean Sneaker's Tool | Apparently no longer available | ||
OPCPlot | Earliest 'operational' GIS program for marine data; no longer available |
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Pan2Applic | Convert PANGAEA tabular data to various formats, especially Ocean Data View |
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Panoply | Display of NetCDF, HDF and GRIB grids; can export XYZ tables |
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RasterImporter | Converts between many grid and image formats, including some military ones |
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Saga | This is the general-purpose, 'workhorse' program we recommend to all data management students, even if they also use other commercial or public domain GIS solutions. One shortcoming is the minimal documentation. | General information: Saga installation files. Two factor identification for os x networking.
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ToolsUI | General-purpose format manipulation tool (and other functions) for OPENDAP-related files, e.g. GRIB, NetCDF |
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VPFImporter | Extracts shapefiles from VPF map libraries. Makes unnecessary the many commercial sites that charge for these files. |
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WineHQ | 'Software to run Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X' [from the website] |
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WRPLOT | Wind rose plots for meteorological data |
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