Use Cases — OPeNDAP

OPeNDAP Use Cases

OPeNDAP is used by data users, data managers, data providers, and software developers. See how our protocol and organization works to support collaboration and innovation.

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Retrieve, Inspect & Utilize Data

OPeNDAP allows researchers and other users to remotely inspect data, subset specific portions, and download it to a variety of analysis environments.

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Manage Data

Find out how OPeNDAP can simplify workflows for complex data projects, especially those with distributed teams and challenging or legacy datasets.

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Provide Data

OPeNDAP reduces data costs and makes it easier for end users to retrieve and manipulate data. See how NASA DAACs and other providers leverage OPeNDAP.

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Develop Custom Servers

See how developers can modify and extend our open-source code to create custom solutions for specific data transfer needs.

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Ready to get started? Download the software now*, or check out our community-powered Support pages for tutorials, FAQs, and more. (Developers can head to Documentation to use our open-source code in their own projects.)

*The Hyrax data server is one of many servers implementing the OPeNDAP protocol. It’s free to use and fully open source.