LinkWinds

LinkWinds (Linked Windows Interactive Data System) is a visual data analysis and exploration system designed to rapidly and interactively investigate large multivariate and multidisciplinary data sets to detect trends, correlations and anomalies. An integrated UNIX-based multi-application execution environment with a full graphical user interface (GUI), LinkWinds is being developed on an object-oriented programming model implemented in the C language. It draws upon the Silicon Graphics Open GL-library for its GUI and graphics support software. This software system can be applied to a variety of scientific disciplines including geology, oceanography, atmospheric physics and chemistry, physical chemistry, cellular biology, meteorology and space plasmas. It provides a variety of functions and services including 2-D and 3-D graphic displays of data, hard copy of graphic displays and text, interactive color manipulation, animation creation and display, data subsetting either at the input or output, a journaled macro capability, context-sensitive help, and network support for collaborative data analysis.

LinkWinds recently received NASA's annual Software of the Year award (1996).

IRIX version compatibility: 5.3, 6.x

Lee Elson

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4800 Oak Grove Drive
MS 183-501
Pasadena, CA 91109-8099
USA
818-354-4223
818-354-0232 (fax)
elson@magus.jpl.nasa.gov

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