Does PO.DAAC distribute data in GIS format?
Yes. The PO.DAAC Ocean Esip Tool (POET) provides interactive, on-line subsetting and visualization of many of PO.DAAC’s data products. Viewing options include: latitude-longitude maps, animations, time series plots and space-time profiles. Format options include: GIS (GeoTIFF, ArcGrid), image (GIF, PNG, JPG), scientific (HDF, NetCDF), and raw (binary, ASCII). This graphical interface was developed by Ocean ESIP (Earth Science Information Partner).