Subject: Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools (MGET) help
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From: | "Jason Roberts" <> |
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To: | "'Melanie Gomes'" <>, <> |
Subject: | RE: [mget-help] ArcGIS 10.1 conversion |
Date: | Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:35:32 -0500 |
Dear Melanie, It turns out that something broke the “Need instructions? Click here” link. I just fixed it. Sorry about that! You should be able to access it now. It just goes to the same place as the Download button on the horizontal black toolbar. Currently, MGET does not have tools specifically built for the datasets hosted by ifremer. However many of the files hosted there are in formats that MGET can convert to ArcGIS. Some of them may be readable by ArcGIS directly using the Multidimension Toolbox. Finally, some of them are also hosted at places for which MGET does have some convenient tools for accessing. For example, I think the ODYSSEA GHRSST L4 SST dataset you mentioned is also hosted by NASA PO.DAAC here. MGET does have tools for accessing that dataset directly from NASA PO.DAAC. When you get it installed, look under Data Products à NASA JPL PO.DAAC à GHRSST L4 SST. You can also poke around in the other parts of the Data Products part of MGET and find some other convenient data, such as ocean currents from Aviso, ocean color products from the NASA GSFC OceanColor Group, temperature and salinity from the HYCOM ocean model, etc. These are not a comprehensive list of products by any means, but they are convenient to access: you can just run one tool to download whole sets of time series rasters in GIS format, plugging in the spatial and temporal extent of interest. We add new products every few months. Let me know if you have any questions, Best, Jason From: Melanie Gomes [mailto:] Dear Jason, Thank you so much for getting back to me I think part of the reason was my computer as the page http://mgel.env.duke.edu/mget looks different today although still when I click on the "need instructions click here" on the right in the box where it says "Download the latest MGET release" it still comes up with an error and defaults to another page and I cant see the instructions. Not sure why. It says error page not found 404 I think then defaults to this page: http://mgel.env.duke.edu/?s=&search_404=1 I am only really getting my head around it all and am going to be using environmental variables, temperature, salinity, predicted tidal currents to input into GIS. The layers I have for temperature are netcdf files from Ifermer which I was hoping to convert to a layer in GIS using your tool. (although I have just gone to the page where I was going to get the data and this has gone so will have to check up on it again: http://tds0.ifremer.fr/thredds/subcatalogs/DATA_CENTERS/CERSAT/ODYSSEA-SST-NRT/ODYSSEA-SST-NRT_VIEW_RUN.html Thank you so much look forward to hearing from you Best wishes Melanie G1112 Centre for Coastal and Marine Research Cromore Road, Coleraine Co. Derry, Northern Ireland Email: From: Jason Roberts [] Dear Melanie, Thanks for your interest in MGET. I’m not sure which help file you are referring to. Can you please send me the URL to that file and I’ll look at it? Also, can you tell me a bit more about what conversion you’re trying to accomplish? I might be able to point you to some better instructions. Best regards, Jason From: Melanie Gomes [] Dear Sir/Madam, Thank you for your free software for Arc 10.1 GIS which I am currently downloading at the moment. I tried to download the help file although it would not load although there was a place for a user name and password but no where to register (the website looked a little strange and maybe it was because on my laptop it did not open properly). I wondered would I be able to register to get the help to use the conversion for these files? I am a full time PhD student at the University of Ulster Northern Ireland. Thank you so much look forward to hearing from you Yours faithfully Melanie Melanie Gomes B.Sc. Hons. M.Sc. MSB PhD research student G1112 Centre for Coastal and Marine Research Cromore Road, Coleraine Co. Derry, Northern Ireland Email: |