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What's hot in the news around climate and sea ice and what are scientists talking about now? NSIDC Services Application Programming Interfaces
NSIDC offers a series of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that allow programmers to build NSIDC data and metadata services into their applications. The following tables list the APIs available from NSIDC.
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General Web Services and APIs
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OPeNDAPOPeNDAP, the Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol, provides a simple way for researchers to access and work with data over the internet. With a URL to an OPeNDAP server, users can browse data, perform subset operations, and open data directly in software and tools like Matlab, R, IDL, and Panoply, as well return data in a variety of formats. |
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NASA Earthdata Search REST Interface APIThis Programmatic Access interface is used to locate and access DAAC hosted data where you can perform subsetting, reformatting, and/or reprojection services on the data. The resulting output data is synchronously streamed back to the user either as a single file or a multi-file zip. |
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NSIDC Data Map ServicesThe NSIDC Data Map Service API provides HTTP URLs for requesting geo-registered map images from NSIDC's geospatial database. The OGC protocols availabe for use are Web Map Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS), and Web Coverage Service. |
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