The New HDFEOS Web Site How it can help you

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The New HDF-EOS Web Site- How it can help you
Kent Yang, Joe Lee
The HDF Group
The 13th HDF and HDF-EOS Workshop
November 3-5, 2009
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Clarification

• Not the website about Earth Observing
  System(eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov)
• Not SDP Toolkit website http//newsroom.gsfc.nasa
  .gov/sdptoolkit/toolkit.html
• Not The HDF Group Website http//hdfgroup.org
• But HDF-EOS Tools and Information Center
• http//hdfeos.org or http//hdfeos.net

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Outline

• Overview(10 minutes)
• Examples(15 minutes)
• Software (15 minutes)
• Forum(15 minutes)

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Overview
Old Webpage
New Webpage

• Reorganize the overall structure
• Update the main page

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Overview
New
Old

• Remove the NEWS section

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Overview
New

• Keep the WORKSHOPS section

Old
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Overview
Old
New

• Change the REFERENCE section to HELP and
  largely update the contents

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Overview

• Add the example section

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Overview
Old
New

• Largely update the software section

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Overview

• Add a forum section

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Forum Why?

• Search before you ask.
• No registration is required.
• Subscribe to topics of your interest.
• Registration is required.

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Forum Help gt FAQ
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Forum Registration
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Forum Subscription
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Forum Register Now!

• Please Register Now!
• Use this laptop after this talk.
• We can help you to register today.

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Examples

• Library
• Tools

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Examples - Library

• Programming language examples to access HDF-EOS2
  and HDF-EOS5 Grid, Swath

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Examples - Library

• Programming languages include C, Fortran, IDL and
  MatLab

Grid
Swath
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Examples - Library
NSIDC C-Code
NSIDC Fortran-Code

• Data files include products distributed by NASA
  GES DISC, NSIDC, LP DAAC and LaRC

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Examples - Library

• Special Examples to handle HDF-EOS Data

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Examples - tools
HEG
Swath in GeoTIFF
GrADS
NCL

• HEG
• GrADS
• NCL
• Using IDV via OPeNDAP
• Using GrADS via OPeNDAP

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Software
New
Old

• Evaluate 35 tools and libraries
• Add 11 tools and libraries

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Software - library
GDAL

• Add detailed descriptions

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Software - Tools

• Categorize tools
• Available through NASA Data Centers
• Supported by The HDF Group
• Supported by the NASA ESDIS Project Via the
  contract to Raytheon
• Supported by Others
• Unsupported Tools

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Software Supported Tools
GDL
PHDIS
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Software Unsupported Tools
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• For more information,
• visit www.hdfeos.org
• Send suggestions to eoshelp_at_hdfgroup.org

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Thank you !
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Acknowledgements

• This work was supported by cooperative agreement
  number NNX08AO77A from the National Aeronautics
  and Space Administration (NASA).
• Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or
  recommendations expressed in this material are
  those of the authors and do not necessarily
  reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and
  Space Administration.

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Questions/comments?