The Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) fro
Unidata/UCARis a
Java
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based software framework for analyzing and visualizing
geoscience
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data. The IDV release includes a software library and a reference application made from that software. It uses the
VisAD
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In distributed computing, distributed objects are objects (in the sense ...
library and other Java-based utility packages.
The IDV is developed at the Unidata Program Center (UPC),
part of the
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) is a US nonprofit consortium of more than 100 colleges and universities providing research and training in the atmospheric and related sciences. UCAR manages the National Center for Atmosph ...
,
Boulder, Colorado
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which is funded by the
National Science Foundation
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. The software is freely available under the terms of the GNU
Lesser General Public License
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.
References
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Bibliography
* D. Murray, J. McWhirter, S. Wier, S. Emmerson
The Integrated Data Viewer: A Web-enabled application for scientific analysis and visualization Preprints, 19th Int. Conf. on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Long Beach, CA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 13.2.
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3D graphics software
Earth sciences graphics software