Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools Announcements

 

MGET 0.7 Beta 1 is released

 

The Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools Development Team invites you to download MGET 0.7 Beta 1, now available on the MGET home page. As this is a beta release, we are especially interested in your feedback so we can fix any problems prior to issuing the final release sometime in July.

 

Notable new tools included in MGET 0.7:

 

·         Tools for downloading species observations from data providers such as the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) using the DiGIR protocol

·         A tool for calculating species diversity indices for arbitrary polygons

·         Tools for batch conversion of QuikSCAT sigma-0 sea surface roughness files published by the BYU MERS lab in SIR format to ArcGIS format

·         Tools for batch conversion of ArcGIS rasters to points, lines, polygons, and polygon outlines

·         Tools for batch calculating the distance from points to the nearest points, lines, or polygons, and copying attributes from them

·         Tools for batch projecting, clipping, and/or executing map algebra in one step

 

Notable enhancements and bug fixes:

 

·         Support for the latest versions of ArcGIS (9.3.1) and R (2.9.0)

·         Dramatically improved performance under ArcGIS 9.3

·         An important bug fix in the Cayula-Cornillon SST front detection tool

·         Many improvements and fixes to the Statistics tools

·         Many improvements to the installation program

 

Important notes:

 

·         The parameters of some of the Statistics tools have changed. After installing this release, you may need to fix your geoprocessing models to use the new parameters.

·         These changes affect the downloadable habitat modeling example (HabModExample2). If you use this example, please download the new version of it when you install MGET 0.7 beta 1.

 

There were 60+ enhancements and bug fixes in total. See the Change List for more information.

 

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Best regards,

 

The MGET Development Team