GLOBEC Software Tools

A list of JGOFS and related software "wish list" items is available on-line.

• AAPLAY: The Autodesk Animation Player is a program for viewing a wide variety of animation formats, including *.fli and *.flc file types. You can create your own animation files too. To get the software, go to http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/modeling/flc.html

• ATSEE Matlab utility to plot ship's track, station locations, moorings, etc.
• CTDPLOT: Plotting CTD Data from the Broadscale Surveys.
• WHOI Silhouette DIGITIZER is a MATLAB-based computer program for measuring the lengths of marine organisms in the macrozooplankton size range. This program allows you to identify and measure the organisms from a plankton sample that has been photographed and scanned.
• EventLog QuattroPro utility to simplify manual logging of stations and other cruise events.
• GBPLOT - a matlab based utility to generate a basic plot of the Georges Bank area with isobath lines. You can ftp a zip file or select the files individually. A tar file of these files is also available.

• GMT - Generic Mapping Tools used by our "options server" to produce some of the JGOFS Data System's plots.
• JGOFS/GLOBEC software: The US GLOBEC version of the JGOFS sofware is available here. Download the last available tar file.
• Kriging software: The EasyKrig, Matlab based, kriging tool written by Dezhang Chu is available for download from ftp://globec.whoi.edu/pub/software/kriging/easy_krig/. It will operate on many platforms (PC-Windows/2000/XP, Macintosh and Unix-based,including Linux and Solaris OS) as long as the Matlab program is installed.     Version 3.0, compatible with Matlab 6, is available for Macs and PCs and Linux/Unix machines. In January 2013, Dezhang Chu tested a revised version of the Matlab code and it worked well with Matlab 2012a. He would like to acknowledge Dr. Kathelijne M. Wijnberg for this version. This version is accessible as a zip file, EasyKrig_V3.0_Matlab2012a.zip, and as individual directories, at the FTP site mentioned above.     See the program documentation for details on how to use this program. Note that the documention has been translated into several languages including:
  Czech (For program version 2.1)
  Georgian
  Indonesian
  Polish
  Romanian (For program version 2.1)
  Ukrainian
  Russian
  

  In addition, a Matlab based toolbox was written by Caroline Lafleur and Yves Gratton, INRS-Ocanologie, Universit du Qubec Rimouski.

  • Matlab toolbox Version 2
  • Matlab toolbox Version 3

  Also available (to be used in conjunction with the Lafleur/Gratton Matlab kriging tool) is a "one-shot" Matlab project written for Jeff Runge. A brief description on how to use this software is available from the URL http://globec.whoi.edu/software/krigeage/demodoc.html. Questions and comments may be directed to: Yves Gratton, 418-724-1741, yves_gratton@uqar.uquebec.ca or Jeffrey Runge, 418-775-0676, j_runge@am.qc.dfo.ca. The software is available as a tar file, a zip file, or via anonymous ftp access from globec.whoi.edu, cd to /pub/software/krigeage.

• Matlab code for local and remote import of JGOFS database data directly into MATLAB. You need Matlab running on your machine, including the external interface code to use this feature.
• PCXSHADE is used to convert a 256-color PCX graphic file (zsoft format) to a 2-color (Black and White) PCX graphic file. In the process of conversion, dither patterns are substituted for each color in the 256-color file. It is a FORTRAN program which runs under DOS (PC). The program was written by J.E. O'Reilly, NOAA, Narragansett RI 02882-1199 (oreilly@fish1.gso.uri.edu).
• A program to calculate sigma T based on salinity and temperature is available in both a MATLAB and FORTRAN versions.
• Visualization tools will be very useful during the analysis and synthesis of the U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank data. We are looking into various ways (Web-based, client based, etc.) of providing such tools. Watch this link for future updates.

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  Last updated: February 24, 2017