Free Softwares available for Oceanographic mapping

[vinu]

A list of widely using softwares (freely available) for oceanographic mapping and analysing purpose.

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GrADS: Grid Analysis and Display System(http://grads.iges.org/grads/) for questions/doubts mail to: xavier'at'caos.iisc.ernet.in

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Ferret: (http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/)

FAQ: (http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/FAQ/ferret_FAQ.html)

for questions/doubts mail to: jaison'at'caos.iisc.ernet.in or retish.senanatlodyc.jussieu.fr

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GMT: Geniric Mapping Tool(http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/)for questions/doubts mail to: rocksea'at'ees.hokudai.ac.jp or nuncio'at'darya.nio.org

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ODV: Ocean Data View(http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/GEO/ODV/) __________________________________________________ __




DODS: Distributed Oceanographic Data System(http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/dods/)_________________________________________________ ___




TAO: Tropical Atmosphere Ocean project Display Software(http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/taows.html)_______________________________________ _____________




<B>Documentation for each of the above softwares are available</B>

[b]on thier web-sites. For any additional helps and doubt clearence,
the users are requested to use the FAQ section of the Individual
softweres or to ask the people who are familiar with that particular
kind of softweres with in our group. A list of peoples familiar with the above
softweres among our group memebers are also displayed.
All are welcome to extend their contributions.

[rocksea]

Octave:
(http://www.octave.org/)
Compatible with Matlab, GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily
intended for numerical computations. It can be used for Oceanographic
mapping and analysis too. Multi purpose software.
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OMC: Online Map Creation
(http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc/)
Simple online map creation. You can fill out a form and create map
projections including bathymetry, topography, plate boundaries,rivers
and channels and other geographical features.

[praveen]

with reference to the thread I given in post

http://www.oceanographers.net/forums/showthread.php?p=179#post179

1. SeaDAS

There is one free software called SeaDAS for analysing the SeaWIFS,
MODIS data sets. You can download and install in your system. with IDL
developement lisence or with embedded lisence.

This software can work with ADEOS/OCTS, MOS, CZCS data sets also.
There is only display capability is available for AVHRR SST files.

you could get the software in these links,

1. http://seadas.gsfc.nasa.gov/

or

2. http://seadas.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/seadas_online_install.pl

The second link will take care of all the downloading and installing
automatically for you.
You can work with this software both in GUI and command prompt.

Go through the following links For command prompt tutorials

1. http://seadas.gsfc.nasa.gov/doc/tutorial/sds_tut1.html
2. http://seadas.gsfc.nasa.gov/doc/sds_command.html

2. HDFLook

HDFLook is a multifunctional GES DAAC data processing and visualization tool for MODIS (Radiometric and Geolocation, Atmosphere, Ocean and Land data) and AIRS L1B data.

For further details and download, click on download page (http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/tools/HDFLook/index.shtml#download)


best of luck

[ocecept]

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/
Matplotlib

matplotlib is a python 2D plotting library which produces publication quality figures in a variety of hardcopy formats and interactive environments across platforms. matplotlib can be used in python scripts, the python and ipython (http://ipython.scipy.org/) shell (ala matlab or mathematica), web application servers, and six graphical user interface toolkits.

[jgarces]

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/

Panoply is an excelent free netcdf viewer. It's a Java application which plots geo-gridded arrays from netCDF datasets. It's avalaible in Mac OS X, Windows and generic (Linux, OS/2, etc)