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'''Web Coverage Service Access from NetCDF Files'''
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The goal is to provide you an easy way to publish your data in NetCDF format.
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The cross-platform toolkit from data to Web Service contains:
 
 
 
* Checking the CF-1.0 compatibility of your data.
 
* Creating CF-1.0 compatible NetCDF files from your data.
 
* Setting up a Web Coverage Service directly from your files with no extra configuration.
 
 
 
Below are sections and descriptions to all the tools we provide. Feel free to participate!
 
 
 
== Cross Platform Python-NetCDF Library ==
 
 
 
The most feature-rich library to access NetCDF files via python is PyNIO. Unfortunately it is unix-only. That's why '''nc3''' was created. The two purposes of '''nc3''' are:
 
 
 
- Provide simple read and write access to NetCDF files.
 
 
 
- WCS query: Extract a subcube from a NetCDF.
 
 
 
== NetCDF Markup Language: NCML ==
 
 
 
Creating a NetCDF file via plain API is difficult, NCML allows you to describe dimensions, variables and attributes in one xml document. This simplifies creating an empty NetCDF file a great deal.
 
 
 
== CF-1.0 Convention ==
 
 
 
It's not enough to have NetCDF as format, you also need to standardize the attribute names, how to store dimensions etc. To make it easy to create CF-1.0 compatible files, we provide a python library '''cf1'''.
 
 
 
 
 
- python 2.5.1
 
 
 
- NetCDF 3.6.1
 
 
 
- lxml 1.3.6
 
 
 
== Creating CF-1.0 Compatible NetCDF Files ==
 
 
 
creating of NC
 
 
 
Basics of NCML
 
 
 
libraries.
 
 
 
== The Distributed Version Control System ==
 
 
 
- darcs src code
 
 
 
- how to get binaries
 
 
 
- currently live repositories
 
 
 
== Existing Features WCS ==
 
 
 
== Feature Requests of WCS ==
 

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