dataSetQuery: Data set queries of the oceanographic data

In r-forge/satin: Functions for downloading, reading and displaying satellite data for oceanographic applications with R

Description

To make a query of the oceanographic data availables in the BloomWatch server.

Usage

dataSetQuery(parameter = NULL, resolution = NULL, others = NULL, dataset = NULL)

Arguments

parameter	a character string indicating which oceanographic data is desired.
resolution	a character string indicating the desired spatial resolution. For example, 4.4km, 0.1degrees, 0.0125degrees, etc.
others	a character string indicating a query based on the full description of the data set. For example, use modis to find all oceanographic data obtained from the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer.
dataset	the number indicating the desired data set. For example, if dataset=40 then "TBAssta". This data set corresponds to "global" sea surface temperature, with a spatial resolution of 0.1degrees.

Details

All arguments of this function ignore case during matching, that is, words don't differ in meaning based on difering use of uppercase and lowercase letters. You can also use incomplete words, example, "temp", "Temper", "temperatur", etc.

Author(s)

Raul O Martinez-Rincon and Héctor Villalobos

References

http://coastwatch.pfel.noaa.gov/coastwatch/CWBrowserWW360Info.html

Examples

## To see all available oceanographic data use:
dataSetQuery()

## Make a query for temperature, or the same query using incomplete words 
## and ignoring case.
dataSetQuery(parameter = "temperature")
dataSetQuery(parameter = "temPer")
## In both examples you will get 33 posible images containing temperature

## If you want sea surface temperature with a spatial resolution of 
## 0.1 degrees use:
dataSetQuery(parameter = "temperature", resolution = "0.1degrees")
## In this query you will get only 4 options.

## To get the data set id for "SST,Blended,0.1degrees,Global,EXPERIMENTAL" use:
dataSetQuery(dataset = 40)

r-forge/satin documentation built on Feb. 18, 2022, 2:39 a.m.