Tools

Tools are things that makes life easier for understanding the data that is available and effective use of your time and energy, including version control software like Git, system monitoring tools like Nagios, dashboards like Jcommops, and productivity tools like Slack.

Version control software:

• Git is a free and open source distributed version control system, prominent examples of which are:
  • Bitbucket from Atlassian
  • GitHub is the world’s largest source code host, owned by Microsoft
  • GitLab from GitLab Inc.
  • SourceForge from Slashdot Media
• Apache Subversion (SVN) is a free, open source version control software for client-server use

Tools specifically for interacting with NetCDFs:

• Unidata maintain an extensive list of netCDF software, including their own Integrated Data Viewer (IDV)
• Ocean Data Viewer (ODV) from AWI
• ncBrowse from NOAA
• Panopoly from NASA

Examples of marine science related Matlab packages:

• SEA-MAT: A collaborative effort to organize and distribute Matlab tools for the Oceanographic Community

Examples of marine science related Python packages:

• SEA-PY: A collaborative effort to organize and distribute Python tools for the Oceanographic Community

Examples of marine science related R packages:

• marmap: Import, Plot and Analyze Bathymetric and Topographic Data
• oce: Analysis of Oceanographic Data
• mregions: Marine Regions Data from ‘Marineregions.org’
• worrms: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) Client

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) tools:

• QGIS from the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)

Bespoke tools

• MamVisAD for visualising telemetry data from SMRU sea mammal tags