ViRBO Autoplot Application (DEV)

This demonstration application attempts to allow plotting of data from many data sources, including local files and dods servers. Datasets are identified with URLs, and by the URL's extension a module is used to load the data into the internal data model. Data is then displayed by guessing the rendering method and axis ranges to provide a reasonable, useful view of the data. Additional metadata can then be applied to the data, for example, specifying valid range and fill data.

This development release is an untagged version with experimental features.

data is input from:

  • ascii files (.dat,.txt)
  • binary files (.bin)
  • excel spread sheets (.xls)
  • das2Streams (.d2s or .das2Stream)
  • netcdf files (.nc,.ncml)
  • cdf files(.cdf)
  • dods servers (.dds)
  • Cluster Exchange Format files (.cef)
  • Fits Format Files
  • Images (.jpg, .png, .gif)
  • This is not complete, and limitations include:

  • Quantities of rank 3 dimensionality (e.g. flux(Time,Energy,pitch) are plotted by slicing.
  • Quantities of rank 4 dimensionality cannot be plotted.
  • Vector quantities such as B(GSM) are plotted as a stack of lineplots, with limited controls.
  • autoplot.org is the wiki website, and contains more information than this launch page.

    Click here to launch.

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