Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools Announcements

 

MGET 0.7 is released!

 

The Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools Development Team invites you to download MGET 0.7, now available on the MGET home page. This release, 8 months in the making, includes 78 new features, enhancements, and bug fixes implemented since the 0.6 release. See the Change List for complete details. Highlights include:

 

New tools

 

·         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

 

For a complete list if the 185 tools in MGET, click here.

 

New examples

 

·         Building an archive of popular oceanographic products in ArcGIS raster format (includes a script you can run)

·         Downloading species observations from the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) with the DiGIR protocol

·         Calculating species diversity index grids from species presence points

 

For more examples, click here.

 

Notable enhancements and bug fixes

 

·         Support for the latest versions of ArcGIS (9.3.1) and R (2.9.1)

·         Dramatically faster performance under ArcGIS 9.3

·         Reduced memory leaks under ArcGIS 9.3, so batch tools can run longer (ArcGIS itself still leaks, so tools cannot run forever without being restarted)

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

·         Several new options and many improvements to the Statistics tools

·         Many improvements to the installation program

·         Better support for non-English versions of Windows and ArcGIS

 

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.

 

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Best regards,

 

The MGET Development Team