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0.2 Who is this Guide for?

This guide is for people who wish to use Matlab to browse and retrieve data from existing on-line OPeNDAP datasets. Scientists who wish to share their data with colleagues may also find this a useful system, since it is a relatively simple matter to set up a server that can allow remote access to your data.

This documentation assumes that the readers are familiar with computers and the internet, but are not necessarily programmers. More than a passing familiarity with Matlab will be useful, as will an understanding of elementary internet concepts, such as URLs and http.