{"id":121961,"date":"2011-04-19T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/environmental-data-collector-extension-for-arcgis-10-0\/"},"modified":"2011-04-19T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T18:32:00","slug":"environmental-data-collector-extension-for-arcgis-10-0","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/water\/environmental-data-collector-extension-for-arcgis-10-0","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Data Collector extension for ArcGIS 10.0"},"author":4911,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23051],"tags":[24981],"industry":[],"product":[],"class_list":["post-121961","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water","tag-hydro"],"acf":{"short_description":"Charged by NOAA Fisheries, Applied Science Associates (ASA)--a global science and technology solutions company--developed an ArcGIS exten...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Charged by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmfs.noaa.gov\/\" title=\"NOAA: National Marine Fisheries Service\" target=\"_blank\">NOAA Fisheries<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asascience.com\/about\/index.shtml\" title=\"ASA: Applied Science Associates:: About\" target=\"_blank\">Applied Science Associates<\/a> (ASA)&#8211;a global science and technology solutions company&#8211;developed an <b>ArcGIS extension<\/b> called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asascience.com\/software\/arcgistools\/edc.shtml\" title=\"EDC: Environmental Data Collector\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Environmental Data Collector<\/b> <\/a>(<b>EDC<\/b>).<\/p>\n<p>EDC is a tool&#8211;<i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfeg.noaa.gov\/products\/EDC\/\" title=\"EDC\" target=\"_blank\">now available for ArcGIS 10<\/a><\/b>&#8211;<\/i>-that allows users to connect to and download environmental data served by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unidata.ucar.edu\/projects\/THREDDS\/\" title=\"THREDDS\" target=\"_blank\">Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services<\/a> (<b>THREDDS<\/b>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/motherlode.ucar.edu:8080\/thredds\/catalog.html\" title=\"THREDDS Catalog\" target=\"_blank\"><b>THREDDS<\/b> data catalog<\/a> includes, but is not limited to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>model data<\/b>&#8211;such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov\/GFS\/doc.php\" title=\"National Center for Environmental Prediction\" target=\"_blank\">National Center for Environmental Prediction (<b>NCEP<\/b>) Global Forecast System Model<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><b>radar data<\/b>&#8211;such as <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roc.noaa.gov\/WSR88D\/\" title=\"NEXRAD Radar Operations Center\" target=\"_blank\">NEXRAD<\/a><\/b>,<\/li>\n<li><b>station data<\/b>&#8211;such as <b><a href=\"http:\/\/weather.noaa.gov\/weather\/metar.shtml\" title=\"METAR Data Access\" target=\"_blank\">METAR<\/a><\/b>, and<\/li>\n<li><b>satellite data<\/b>&#8211;such as <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nesdis.noaa.gov\/AboutNESDIS.html\" title=\"About NESDIS\" target=\"_blank\">NESDIS<\/a><\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloads.esri.com\/blogs\/hydro\/SurfaceTemp.png\" alt=\"Experimental 8 day composite from ERDDAP Sea Surface Temperature\" width=\"733\" height=\"797\"><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Experimental 8 day composite from ERDDAP Sea Surface Temperature<\/b><\/p>\n<p>With EDC, an ArcGIS user can quickly and easily view <b>THREDDS<\/b> environmental data, select spatial and temporal limits, download raster and feature data <i><b>and<\/b><\/i> view the dataset as a <b>temporal animation<\/b>, using the <a href=\"http:\/\/help.arcgis.com\/en\/arcgisdesktop\/10.0\/help\/index.html#\/\/005z0000000z000000.htm\" title=\"Desktop Help 10.0 - Using the Time Slider window\" target=\"_blank\">Time Slider window<\/a> in ArcGIS Desktop 10.<\/p>\n<p>The EDC tool is available to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asascience.com\/software\/downloads\/\" title=\"ASA Software Downloads\" target=\"_blank\">download <b>for free<\/b> from ASA<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfeg.noaa.gov\/products\/EDC\/\" title=\"EDC\" target=\"_blank\">NOAA<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><i><b>Special thanks to Caitlin Scopel for providing the post. 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