IRI Data Library and GIS software

Ingrid is used to implement the IRI Climate Data Library. There are three major goals: helping users find suitable datasets, providing a useful summary of the dataset once found, and helping users make use of the data in that dataset.  Ingrid uses an object-oriented approach to create a WWW-accessible environment where datasets can be found, accessed, viewed, and manipulated.

The server is designed to be a WWW resource: users can write their own hypertext and simply link directly to data-based figures, calculations, even data-manipulating tools. Alternatively, datasets and arbitrary subsets of datasets can be specified as urls for web-aware tools, or can be downloaded in a variety of formats for use in older tools. While the dataset environment appears to be uniform, the datasets are spread over a network of data servers and local copies are updated automatically. The Data Library is thus both a member of and a prototype for the next generation of tools that manipulate data and metadata directly from networks of dataset servers.

Overview - Data Library Structure
User Interface - user interface
Sample Datasets - sample datasets
GIS formats - current (and future) GIS formats
Sample Downloads - sample sessions for downloading data
Arc Info Interface - Valerie Obsomer's interface for transforming directories of images from the Data Library