PanTool



PanTool is a software tool box like a Swiss Army Knife for data conversion and recalculation, written to harmonize individual data collections to standard import format used by PANGAEA. The format of input files the program PanTool needs is a tabular saved in plain ASCII. The user can create this files with a spread sheet program like MS-Excel or with the system text editor.

PanTool is distributed as freeware for the operating systems Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X and Linux.

Find the recent version and reference of the old PanTool at 

The new version of PanTool is avaiblable here.

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).

= Reference and detailed description of PanTool2 (beta) =

Work with files


PanTool2 works with text files only. The basic idea is to open choose one or many file(s) and select a tool from the Basic tools or the Special tools menu. The Basic tools works on all text files, the files for the Special tools needs special formats (e.g. files must contain latitude/longitude in the first two columns).

The file(s) can be choosen by using the file dialog File -> Open... or by the folder dialog File -> Select Folder. Drag & drop can be used also for selecting file(s) or folder(s).

In general PanTool don't ask for the name of the output file. With File -> Options... the format of the output files name can be given. If more than one tools needed, the new input file is the output file of the step before.

Examples (-> after the tool has been working):
 * zz%a_%N.txt : test.tab -> zz1_test.txt -> zz2_test.txt -> ...
 * %N_imp.txt : test.txt -> test_imp.txt
 * %N0%a.dat : test.txt -> test01.dat -> test02.dat -> ...

The encoding of the input and output file can be choosen.

Delete double lines
Deletes all double lines in input files. No Dialog.

Save list of files
Creates a list of filenames shown in the program window. A output name will be requested.

Pressure -> Depth
If the input file contains the columns Latitude and "Pressure, water [dbar]" this tool calculates Depth, water [m]. The algorithm based on a source code snippet from Reiner Schlitzer (AWI). No dialog.

Conductivity, temperature, pressure -> salinity
If the input file contains the columns Conductivity [mS/cm], Temperature, water [deg C], and Pressure, water [dbar] this tool calculates Salinity. The algorithm base on a source code snippet from Jan Schulz. See http://www.code10.info/...