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There are a few reasons you may need to add a dataset to the OPeNDAP Matlab GUI.
It is possible to add datasets to the ones that come with the OPeNDAP Matlab GUI, and to edit or add to the metadata for the datasets that do come with it. This will require some minor programming in Matlab, but much of the time it's fairly simple.
The OPeNDAP Matlab GUI is designed for the retrieval and display of data served by
an OPeNDAP server. This means that in order for the OPeNDAP Matlab GUI to read
your data, there must be an OPeNDAP server, on a machine connected to
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somehow, with access to that data. The machine serving
the data could be connected to yours on a local network or by the
internet, or it could even be on your own computer. Either way, the
data must come from an OPeNDAP server.
Making your data available by an OPeNDAP server is a fairly
straightforward affair for datasets stored in one of the several
supported formats. The server itself is a typical web server
(httpd), adapted with a set of OPeNDAP CGI programs. To set up a
server for your data, please refer to OPeNDAP User Guide. You can find it and
all the other OPeNDAP documentation at OPeNDAP Home page.
Once a OPeNDAP server is set up to serve your data, the dataset may be added to the OPeNDAP Matlab GUI by providing the following pieces of information. Many datasets can use minimally modified versions of one or more of these pieces from existing datasets. Each of these are detailed in the sections that follow.
getxxx
function. Most often it's possible to use (or adapt) one of the
existing getxxx functions.