CoastWatch Data Analysis Tool Help: Overview

The CoastWatch Data Analysis Tool (CDAT) is a part of the CoastWatch Software Library and Utilities package. CDAT allows you to view satellite data files in CoastWatch HDF (.hdf), CoastWatch IMGMAP (.cwf), and other formats, create data plots, perform data surveys, export data to other formats, and so on. The following figure shows the main components of the CDAT window:

The components are as follows:

Menu bar
Access to file operations, preferences, and the help system.
Tool bar
Buttons for common file and view change operations.
File tabs
Displays the currently open data file names, and allows you to select the desired file.
Control tabs
Access to the data view control panels for enhancement, palette, overlays, surveys, annotations, composite, and navigation correction.
Data view controls
Buttons and adjustments for each panel that controls some aspect of the data view.
Data view
The main area showing the current earth data file.
Track bar
Tracks mouse movement and shows the pointer location in latitude/longitude and image row/column coordinates, as well as the data variable value.

The following help sections contain more details on using CDAT:

Basic data display

Data analysis

Advanced usage