Abstract

POET: A Web Interface to NASA's Physical Oceanographic Data
Track: Parks and Natural Reserves
Author(s): Charles Thompson

NASA's Physical Oceanography Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) is
responsible for archiving and distributing data acquired from
instruments such as TOPEX (ocean TOPography EXperiment) and
Seawinds on Quikscat, a scatterometer which measures wind
velocities over oceans. These data are stored in scientific file
formats such as netCDF and HDF, formats that are not necessarily
copacetic with the world of GIS practitioners. This presentation will
focus on POET, a WMS-compliant web tool allowing users to select
and download PO.DAAC data based upon parametric, spatial,
temporal constraints and output format, including GeoTIFF

Charles Thompson
Science Data Engineering and Data Delivery Group
Jet Propulsion Laboratory MS: 300/320
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena , California 91109
United States
Phone: 818-354-9602
E-mail: Charles.K.Thompson@jpl.nasa.gov