Section: 5.12 Remote Access to NetCDF Data

5.12 Remote Access to NetCDF Data

Read-only remote access to netCDF data is possible from some language interfaces.

For read access to a small subset of the data in a large remote dataset, several kinds of access are possible:

OPeNDAP: a widely used protocol for access to remote data, supported by several servers. The netCDF Java library supports client access. Relinking to the OPeNDAP C client library for netCDF supports OPeNDAP access from other language interfaces.

HTTP: storing a netCDF file on an HTTP server is enough to allow access through the netCDF Java library.

GALEON

OpenGIS Web Coverage Service: experimental, currently under development by participants in the OGC GALEON Network.