The software Pan2Applic is a tool to convert files or folders of files (ascii/tab-separated data files with or without metaheader), downloaded from PANGAEA via the search engine or the data warehouse to formats as used by applications, e.g. for visualization or further processing. It may also be used to convert files or zip-archives as downloaded from CD-ROM data collections, published in the WDC-MARE Reports series. Pan2Applic is distributed as freeware for the operating systems Microsoft Windows, Apple OS X and Linux.
Find the current version and reference of Pan2Applic at doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.288115
Export formats supported by Pan2Applic are
- Google Earth
- Ocean Data View (ODV), oceanographic GIS (odv.awi.de)
- ASCII/text for individual processing
- Shapefile, format as used by GIS applications
- Further export formats may be added on request.
Pan2Applic output formats 1-3 are tab-delimited text-files with the extension *.txt. The DOI as a reference to the source of the data will be included in the output dataset. The user is requested to quote all references related to the original data when publishing new products resulting from a PANGAEA or CD download and processing with Pan2Applic. PANGAEA export files and Pan2Applic processed files can be opened by any editor or spreadsheet software.
Contact: Rainer Sieger (rsieger@pangaea.de). The software is provided as freeware without warranty by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven.