Visualizing NetCDF Files by Using the EverVIEW Data Viewer

Fact Sheet 2010-3046
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Abstract

Over the past few years, modelers in South Florida have started using Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) as the standard data container format for storing hydrologic and ecologic modeling inputs and outputs. With its origins in the meteorological discipline, NetCDF was created by the Unidata Program Center at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, in conjunction with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and other organizations. NetCDF is a portable, scalable, self-describing, binary file format optimized for storing array-based scientific data. Despite attributes which make NetCDF desirable to the modeling community, many natural resource managers have few desktop software packages which can consume NetCDF and unlock the valuable data contained within. The U.S. Geological Survey and the Joint Ecosystem Modeling group, an ecological modeling community of practice, are working to address this need with the EverVIEW Data Viewer. Available for several operating systems, this desktop software currently supports graphical displays of NetCDF data as spatial overlays on a three-dimensional globe and views of grid-cell values in tabular form. An included Open Geospatial Consortium compliant, Web-mapping service client and charting interface allows the user to view Web-available spatial data as additional map overlays and provides simple charting visualizations of NetCDF grid values.
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Visualizing NetCDF Files by Using the EverVIEW Data Viewer
Series title Fact Sheet
Series number 2010-3046
DOI 10.3133/fs20103046
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Year Published 2010
Language ENGLISH
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Contributing office(s) National Wetlands Research Center
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