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1 The OPeNDAP Matlab Graphical User Interface

The OPeNDAP Matlab GUI combines OPeNDAP, a powerful data access protocol, with a convenient set of display functions, and the flexibility and power of the Matlab mathematics programming environment. The effect of the OPeNDAP Matlab GUI is to turn Matlab into a powerful network browser, capable of reading specialized data messages from the Internet. For this reason, we often refer to it as an Open Source Project for a Data Access Protocol "browser."

This chapter contains an overview of the browser, which will be useful for most browser users. It starts in Section 1.2.

• 1.1 Quick Start
• 1.2 What is the OPeNDAP Matlab GUI?
  • 1.2.1 Setting up a data request
  • 1.2.2 Querying a Dataset
  • 1.2.3 Issuing a Data Request
  • 1.2.4 Displaying the Data
• 1.3 Example Sessions
  • 1.3.1 Drawing a Simple Picture
  • 1.3.2 Creating a Time Series
• 1.4 Updating the Dataset List
• 1.5 Editing Bookmarks