HR: 1340h
AN: IN23B-1209    [Abstracts]
TI: HYDRA Hyperspectral Data Research Application Tom Rink and Tom Whittaker
AU: * Rink, T
EM: rink@ssec.wisc.edu
AF: CIMSS Univ of Wisconsin-Madison SSEC, 1225 W DAYTON ST, Madison, WI 53715 United States
AU: Whittaker, T
EM: tomw@ssec.wisc.edu
AF: CIMSS Univ of Wisconsin-Madison SSEC, 1225 W DAYTON ST, Madison, WI 53715 United States
AB: HYDRA is a freely available, easy to install tool for visualization and analysis of large local or remote hyper/multi-spectral datasets. HYDRA is implemented on top of the open source VisAD Java library via Jython - the Java implementation of the user friendly Python programming language. VisAD provides data integration, through its generalized data model, user-display interaction and display rendering. Jython has an easy to read, concise, scripting-like, syntax which eases software development. HYDRA allows data sharing of large datasets through its support of the OpenDAP and OpenADDE server-client protocols. The users can explore and interrogate data, and subset in physical and/or spectral space to isolate key areas of interest for further analysis without having to download an entire dataset. It also has an extensible data input architecture to recognize new instruments and understand different local file formats, currently NetCDF and HDF4 are supported.
UR: http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/hydra/
DE: 3360 Remote sensing
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005