National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service(NESDIS)
This directory contains scanned pages from the Global Ecosystems Database, Disc A Users Manual. Hardcopy versions of this documentation are available at modest cost from
*GED USER GUIDE_help The scanned documentation noted here is contained in the \document directory on the CD-ROM as .gif files. These files can be read by any computer program that reads PC Paintbrushformat files. The GeoVu software provided on this CD-ROM contains such a utility. To use the GeoVu utility, merely select the appropriate file from this menu, using the "Open Data" option that you have been using to this point. If you are VERY NEW to GeoVu, you can open a file by 1. Selecting "File" from the options at the top of your screen. 2. After selecting "File" select "Open Data" from the options that appear in the pull-down menu. 3. Follow the hierarchy of menu paths to the data of your choice. 4. When the hierarchy leads you to a topic "Scanned Documentation" merely select that topic. The next topic should read "Page 1, Page 2,... etc." or "Paper 1 Page 1, Paper 1 Page 2, .... Paper 2 Page 1.... etc. You can select the pages manually, or create a "slide show" under the Utilities option at the top of the screen. The first time the .gif file displays it might be reduced in size. This is a "feature" of current versions of GeoVu that might be improved in the future. If you redisplay the image (by selecting "Search" from the options at the top of the screen, then "Create" from the menu thus pulled down, you can modify the parameter that sets the sampling rate from "n" [usually 2, 3, 4, or 5] to 1). This will give you full resolution display of the scanned documentation. It should be noted that this scanned documentation is a compromise. We originally attempted to use optical character recognition software to convert the scanned documentation to more usable text. However, the technology was too immature at the time of scanning (1992) to use successfully. Indeed, as of this writing (late 1995) the technology is still too immature for convenient application to this problem. Thus, we present the scanned documentation as images. NOTE: Many of the original documents are not copyright, and may be reproduced freely. However, several other documents ARE copyright. The National Geophysical Data Center has obtained permission to reproduce all documents with a valid copyright. However, this permission does not pass automatically to anyone else. Thus, though all of the data on this CD-ROM are unrestricted, much of the scanned documentation (which contains copyright notices) may not be distributed further, without permission of the copyright holder, or without a dontribution made to the Copyright Clearance Center under the rules noted in the individual papers. (Also note that a few documents authored by U. S. Government employees or contractors as part of their work for the Government, had copyrights claimed by the journals that published the papers. Such documents are not subject to copyright, and the copyright claims of said journals have been determined to be meritless.) *GED USER GUIDE ANCILLARY ENVIRONMENTAL DATA
