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Live Access Server (LAS)
The Live Access Server is a highly configurable Web server designed to provide flexible access to geo-referenced scientific data. It can present distributed data sets as a unified virtual data base through the use of Opendap networking. Ferret is the default visualization application used by LAS. The navigator needs to be set for "pop-ups" activation to allow output plots.
The Live Accesss Server able users to
- visualize data with on-the-fly graphics;
- request custom subsets of variables in a choice of file formats;
- access background reference material about the data (metadata);
- compare (difference) variables from distributed locations.
The "Lively data" section of this website proposes a collection of how-tos for the LAS.
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