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The OPeNDAP Data Connector

The OPeNDAP Data Connector (ODC) is a program which allows you to search for and retrieve datasets published by OPeNDAP data servers. OPeNDAP servers (also known as DODS servers) located at major institutions around the world serve a wide variety of data including: climatic data, satellite imagery, and ocean sensor results. The ODC allows you to find these datasets, download them to your machine, save them, and import them into client applications like IDL, Matlab, SPSS, Excel, or into databases such as Access and Oracle, and plot them with advanced graphics capabilities. The ODC is your gateway to terabytes of scientific data and imagery.

Features

  • Search union list of hundreds of well-known OPeNDAP servers
  • Search NASA's Global Change Master Directory
  • Navigate server directories with intuitive interface
  • Retrieve dataset structure specifications and field attributes/descriptions
  • Sophisticated GUI for dataset querying
  • Send output to text view, table view or plotter
  • Plot pseudocolor, vector, line, scatter, histogram
  • Plotter provides highly sophisticated color control and generation
  • Plotter has built-in 1 km coastline with 0.04 km available by download
  • Built-in image viewer
  • Interprocess server allows external applications to communicate with the ODC, to either retrieve fully qualified URLs or data values.

Contact

For questions or to express interest please email us at support@opendap.org.

ODC Installation - Quick Linux Instructions

  • logon as root
  • cd /usr/share
  • download the file ODC-2.57-unix.tar.gz to /usr/share
  • download the file j2re1.4.2_05-x86-linux.tar.gz to /usr/share
  • tar xzvf ODC-2.57-unix.tar.gz
  • tar xzvf j2re1.4.2_05-x86-linux.tar.gz
  • cd /usr/share/ODC/2.57
  • sh startup

The program should start.

  • exit the program by clicking the 'x' at the top of the window
  • chmod -R a+wr (make sure all files are readable and writable by all)

More detailed instructions are in the program directory.