Pan2Applic

The software Pan2Applic is a tool to convert files or folders of files (ascii/tab-separated data files with or without metaheader), downloaded from PANGAEA via the search engine or the data warehouse to formats as used by applications, e.g. for visualization or further processing. It may also be used to convert files or zip-archives as downloaded from CD-ROM data collections, published in the WDC-MARE Reports series. Pan2Applic is distributed as freeware for the operating systems Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X and Linux.

Recent version and reference of Pan2Applic at 

Export formats supported by Pan2Applic are
 * 1) Google Earth
 * 2) Ocean Data View (ODV), oceanographic GIS
 * 3) ASCII/text for individual processing
 * 4) Shapefile, format as used by GIS applications

Further export formats may be added on request.

Pan2Applic output formats 1-3 are tab-delimited text-files with the extension *.txt. The DOI as a reference to the source of the data will be included in the output dataset. The user is requested to quote all references related to the original data when publishing new products resulting from a PANGAEA or CD download and processing with Pan2Applic. PANGAEA export files and Pan2Applic processed files can be opened by any editor or spreadsheet software.

Developer and contact [mailto:rsieger@pangaea.de Rainer Sieger]. The software is provided as freeware without warranty by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).

Examples
All CTD datasets of a cruise Retrieve datasets with Pangaea Search Engine (http://www.pangaea.de). For details read the PangaVista Help (http://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/PangaVista)! In this example we create a query to all CTD datsets of the Polarstern leg ARK-IX/4:
 * 1) http://www.pangaea.de/search?q=ARK-IX/4+CTD

Now, you have to download all datasets.
 * 1) define a query which lists all data sets needed.
 * 2) change www.pangaea.de/search?count=xxx in the query-URL to the number of datasets found.
 * 3) on Return all hits (max. 500) will be listed on one HTML-page. Save the page as HTML-file (select  as file type).

Links

 * Pan2Applic
 * Ocean Data View
 * Google Earth
 * AWI