Wow, thank you! This is a very important contribution to our research community.
Cheers, Mike On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 02:58 Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal < roy.mendelss...@noaa.gov> wrote: > xtractomatic R package for accessing environmental data > > xtractomatic is an R package developed to subset and extract satellite and > other oceanographic related data from a remote server. The program can > extract data for a moving point in time along a user-supplied set of > longitude, latitude and time points; in a 3D bounding box; or within a > polygon (through time). The xtractomatic functions were originally > developed for the marine biology tagging community, to match up > environmental data available from satellites (sea-surface temperature, > sea-surface chlorophyll, sea-surface height, sea-surface salinity, vector > winds) to track data from various tagged animals or shiptracks (xtracto). > The package has since been extended to include the routines that extract > data a 3D bounding box (xtracto_3D) or within a polygon (xtractogon). The > xtractomatic package accesses data that are served through the ERDDAP > (Environmental Research Division Data Access Program) server at the > NOAA/SWFSC Environmental Research Division in Santa Cruz, California! > . The ERDDAP server can also be directly accessed at > http://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap. ERDDAP is a simple to use yet > powerful web data service developed by Bob Simons. > > At present the package can access well over 100TB of data. Due to some > problems with certain required packages and CRAN (most notably ncdf4) > xtractomatic at present is only available through Github. Instructions for > installation are at: > > https://github.com/rmendels/xtractomatic > > -Roy M. > > > ********************** > "The contents of this message do not reflect any position of the U.S. > Government or NOAA." > ********************** > Roy Mendelssohn > Supervisory Operations Research Analyst > NOAA/NMFS > Environmental Research Division > Southwest Fisheries Science Center > ***Note new address and phone*** > 110 Shaffer Road > Santa Cruz, CA 95060 > Phone: (831)-420-3666 > Fax: (831) 420-3980 > e-mail: roy.mendelss...@noaa.gov www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/ > > "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill." > "From those who have been given much, much will be expected" > "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" -MLK > Jr. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.