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Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS) Web Site Tutorial

Learn how to access NOAA's Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS) website with this tutorial. Find information on data access, catalog search, ordering and delivery, and more. Visit the CLASS site at http://www.class.noaa.gov.

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Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS) Web Site Tutorial

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  1. Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System(CLASS) Web Site Tutorial Visit CLASS Site at http://www.class.noaa.gov

  2. The Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS) archives and distributes NOAA’s environmental data and derived data products.

  3. Duplicate CLASS sites at Suitland, MD and Asheville, NC preserve and distribute: • POES/DMSP • GOES • Sea Surface Temperature • Aerosol Optical Thickness • Ocean Color • Pathfinder

  4. Data Archiving • Robotic storage of data and ancillary files • On-line inventory catalog • Data preservation services • Metadata collection

  5. Data Access • Catalog search • Browse imagery/data visualization • Immediate access to derived product data • On-line ordering and delivery • Subscription services • Bulk data distribution

  6. Access CLASS data at http://www.class.noaa.gov

  7. Click here to register

  8. Enter required fields and Click the Register button

  9. Easy access to Help Pages

  10. Help Pages contain detailed information on CLASS Help Pages contain detailed information on CLASS

  11. Returning users log on via Login link

  12. Enter your CLASS user name and password

  13. Easy access to update your User Profile

  14. Edit Profile and push Update button to save

  15. To search the archive, choose a product from the pull-down list and select GO

  16. Product information, FGDC compliant metadata, and links to documentation Establish search criteria, such as, data type, temporal range, and geographic region, then push the Search button Or push here to Search by Dataset Name

  17. Enter partial or full dataset name and push the Search button.

  18. Summary list of data matching your search criteria

  19. Click to Access the summary map

  20. Summary list and map are color coordinated

  21. Click to view dataset details

  22. Check to add to your shopping cart Data set detailed results Navigate to next detailed results

  23. Click to view interactive map Click for full size browse image

  24. Navigate to shopping cart Check box to add to cart

  25. You must be logged in or you may register to order data

  26. JDoe@anyplace.com Push button to place order Specify data extraction parameters including digital signature if required and commit changes.

  27. JDoe@anyplace.com Order confirmation contains order number and email address

  28. Easy access to Order Query

  29. Order Status

  30. Easy access to change user preferences

  31. User preferences page Specify your data extraction and delivery preferences then push Update to save

  32. Easy access to Download Keys Download the keys and select Yes to have Digital Signatures added to your data Digital signature is an electronic signature that can be used to authenticate the identity of the sender of a message or the signer of a document.

  33. Select product to search and press go

  34. Product information and links to documentation are available on Search pages Establish search criteria, such as, data type, temporal range, and geographic region, then push the Search button

  35. Navigate between search results

  36. Click to view details

  37. GOES detailed results page. Click thumbnails for browse images

  38. From the search page Save search criteria

  39. Search criteria are saved to disk and can be uploaded

  40. Upload saved search criteria

  41. Push Browse button to find saved search criteria

  42. Easy access to Subscription services

  43. Select product to establish a subscription

  44. Establish subscription criteria. Push delivery button for other options

  45. Specify delivery options and save

  46. Manage existing subscriptions

  47. Useful Links

  48. Easy access to contact User Services

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