EDC: Environmental Data Connector™
ASA's Environmental Data Connector (EDC) extension uses a Java-based browser to allow users to connect to THREDDS (Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services) catalogs. The connector leverages existing components from the Unidata libraries so that users can filter large amounts of data in space and time. The data is then converted to raster or feature classes in ArcGIS and is available for standard GIS analysis and display. The EDC is also provided by ASA as a stand-alone, Java-based application allowing users to connect to THREDDS catalogs. The stand-alone version provides the same graphic interface to filter data in space and time. The selected data is saved locally in NetCDF format for easy scientific access.
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“If the EDC product had been at my disposal from the start, I would have been able to compress two weeks of tedious work literally into a couple hours. Not only does it pull data in cleanly, but it is already structured to temporally animate, which is a huge step forward. I think that everybody who uses it will be thrilled with the way it handles temporal data. It is a must-have for anybody working with satellite data.”
- Jonathan Kamler, U.S. Coast Guard
EDC available for free download and use:
The Environmental Data Connector (EDC) extension uses a Java-based browser to allow users to connect to THREDDS (Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services) catalogs. The connector leverages existing components from the Unidata libraries so that users can filter large amounts of data in space and time. The NetCDF community can access the filtered data directly while the EDC ArcGis extension can import it into raster format or feature classes for standard GIS analysis and display. The raster and feature data are connected to ASA’s TimeSlider™ extension so that the data may be animated and analyzed over time. Special customizations have been made to ASA’s TimeSlider for this tool to manage data with non-uniform time steps; scientific data is highly variable in time with some data, such as in-situ wind measurements, being measured every few minutes to climate data that may be measured in terms of decades.
EDC software developed and provided by ASA. Development of EDC was funded by NOAA’s Satellite Research and Operation (R&0) project.
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