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