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4. %nakedsoftware.org opensource license, copyright 2010 stephane.poirier@oifii.org % %developed by Stephane Poirier, M.Sc. Optical Physics, Remote Sensing Application Software Developer (1991-2010) % %this function is part of oifii.org's ar\sp\ Microwave- derived 30-year Canada-Alaska Daily Temperature and Snowcover Databases library % %this function is part of oifii.org's ar\sp\'this folder' application (lauched with ar\sp\'this file'.m) %oifii.org's ar\sp\affiche_carte application is part of the oifii.org's ar\sp set of applications which %may also contain similar variant versions of this function with identical filename. % %A geophysical research paper about this work has been submitted in June 2009 for publication in JGR-Atmosphere %Royer, A. and Poirier S., Surface temperature spatial and temporal variations in North America from homogenized %satellite SMMR-SSM/I microwave measurements and reanalysis for 1979-2008, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmosphere, %Submitted June 2009, http://www.oifii.org/tsatdb/Royer- Poirier_Microwave-derived-daily-surface- temperature_JGR2009JD012760_R2.pdf % %This study's database can be downloaded from the author web site at: %http://www.oifii.org/tsatdb/Royer-Poirier_Microwave-derived- daily-surface-temperature-db_1979-2008.zip % %this function is used to display the raw microwave raster data (NSIDC's SMMR and SSMI satellite, ref. nsidc.org) % %usage: % 20yymmmdd % %version 0.0, 20yymmmdd, spi, initial function draft % %nakedsoftware.org opensource license, copyright 2010 stephane.poirier@oifii.org

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7. %{ For details on locating other geospatial data for download over the Internet, see the following documentation at The MathWorks web site: http://www.mathworks.com/support/tech- notes/2100/2101.html %} %{ Download the cntry98 shapefiles The cntry98 shapefiles can be downloaded from: http://www.zmuc.dk/public/GIS-intro/GIS-data/Lektion1/Temaer/ - or - http://giscenter.isu.edu/spatial_library/Other/World/data/wor ld/ %} url = 'http://www.zmuc.dk/public/GIS-intro/GIS- data/Lektion1/Temaer/'; try urlwrite([url '/cntry98.shp'],'cntry98.shp'); urlwrite([url '/cntry98.dbf'],'cntry98.dbf'); urlwrite([url '/cntry98.shx'],'cntry98.shx'); catch error('Unable to download cntry98 shapefiles.'); end %{ Download the cntry02 shapefiles. The cntry02 shapefiles can be downloaded from: http://openmap.bbn.com/data/shape/cntry02.tar.gz - or - http://www.zmuc.dk/public/GIS-intro/GIS-data/Lektion1/Temaer/ %} url = 'http://openmap.bbn.com/data/shape/cntry02.tar.gz'; try files = untar(url) catch error('Unable to download %s.', url); end %{ Download the world_borders shapefiles. The world_borders shapefiles can be downloaded from: http://mappinghacks.com/data/world_borders.zip %} url = 'http://mappinghacks.com/data/world_borders.zip'; try files = unzip(url) catch error('Unable to download %s.', url); end