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== Web Coverage Service Access from NetCDF Files == | == Web Coverage Service Access from NetCDF Files == | ||
| − | + | The goal is to provide you an easy way to publish your data in NetCDF format. | |
| − | + | 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 | + | Below are sections and descriptions to all the tools we provide. Feel free to participate! |
== Cross Platform Python-NetCDF Library == | == Cross Platform Python-NetCDF Library == | ||
Revision as of 12:54, July 8, 2009
Web Coverage Service Access from NetCDF Files
The goal is to provide you an easy way to publish your data in NetCDF format.
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:
- to allow simple read/write access to NetCDF files
- to be the workhorse of the 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
