Monthly Archives: January 2012

NCL Script to Get MODIS Latitude/Longitude

Posted on January 30, 2012 by mabouali

The NCAR Command Language (NCL) is a great software in processing and visualizing data in geosciences. If you haven’t installed it yet, go here. NCL handles many types of data such as NetCDF and HDF. More importantly, the interface to … Continue reading →

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NCL Scripts to Download MODIS Data

Posted on January 30, 2012 by mabouali

MODIS products can be downloaded free of charge from “Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC)”, (click here). There are different products available, with various spatial and temporal resolutions. Some are daily basis, while the others are available on … Continue reading →

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Installing Overture on a Freshly Installed Ubuntu

Posted on January 16, 2012 by mabouali

Overture is part of Advance CompuTational Software (ACTS) collections, a set of tools mainly funded by Department of Energy (DOE) to make it easier for the end users to write high-performance scientific applications. If you haven’t visited their website; perhaps … Continue reading →

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