OpenEarth

This is the home page for the OpenEarth space at http://openearth.deltares.nl.

OpenEarth wiki philosophy

This wiki is intended to be a low-level area to share documents, links and knowledge snippets. When logged in you can edit the site. When you press 'edit' formatting help is available.

For the more sophisticated management of Data, Models and Tools the OpenEarth repositories are used (NB: login required):

• OpenEarthData
• OpenEarthRawData
• OpenEarthModels
• OpenEarthTools

The Data, Models and Tools and tools in these repositories will be shared via web services employing international standards like netCDF, CF parameter meta-data, EPSG spatial meta-data, INSPIRE owner meta-data, OPeNDAP and opengis web map/feature/coverage servcies (WMS, WCS, WFS). The dta collection procedure and the relation between those standards is shown in figure and in the MICORE [Data Standards] document.

How can I join?

You can view the content of these repositories with your browers after logging in or you can [access the repository with a SubVersion client], that provides write access as well.

OpenEarth participants

The OpenEarth repositories are used by:

• Building with Nature
• MICORE
• Deltares
• TU Delft: Hydraulic engineering and Environmental FLuid Mechanics.

Invitations have been sent to Van Oord, Alkyon, Moffat and Nichol and others.

OpenEarth guidelines:

• [matlab coding style ]

Initiatives similar to OpenEarth

• Matlab: mathworks discussion group - Contains answers to many of the questions faced by Matlab programmers
• Matlab: mathworks download central - Contains a lot of matlab user contributions, but is not limited to coastal and marine science and technology.
• Matlab: Woodshole Sea Mat
• Matlab: Rich Pawlowicz's Stuff - containing for example
  • Tidal analysis and prediction with t_tide
  • A basic mapping toolbox
• Matlab: Ocean Toolbox
• Matlab: HDF file IO - easy-to-use interface to HDF4 SD and NetCDF files
• Matlab: MACE (MAtlab toolbox for Coastal Engineers)
• Matlab: Caltech's Eran Ofek stuff
• Matlab: Spatial econometrics by James P. LeSage

OPeNDAP data sharing

• What is OPeNDAP?
• The pre-operational Micore OpenDap server
• OpenDap Howto

Open Source Software

OpenEarth is an Open Source Software initiative. We are not alone:

• Open Source: Dutch Government Decides to Use Open Source Software
• Open Source: Dutch Cabinet Wants to Use Open Source Software
• Open Source: Vietnam Government Decides to Use Open Source Software
• Open Source: German Foreign Office Decides to make its Software Open Source