User Applications
There are many different ways of using the JGOFS data system:
- Browsers: World-Wide Web browsers can be used to list and (for
those which support imaging) plot data.
- For local listing and plotting data, one can use a user interface to construct calls to the data
system, acquire the data, and do certain operations on it. The user
interface is not a core part of the system, but is built using
the programming interface; thus we can and do have several different
interfaces available:
- Command line
- Menu shell (X windows and VT100)
- brower shell
- Data can be imported into commercial packages, in some cases
quite directly. Thus we have a MATLAB function, loadjg, which
can read data directly into matrices from the data system (including
all the data manipulation operations). See here.
- We provide a simple set of subroutine
calls by which C and Fortran programs can read data.