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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Internet Resources for Earth Science Data
Authors : Martin Trauth, Elisabeth Sillmann
Published in: MATLAB® and Design Recipes for Earth Sciences
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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This chapter deals with electronic data resources, searching for specific data, transferring data between servers and computers (
clients
), and data storage. Section 3.2 introduces the systems available for data storage, starting with a historical retrospective and ending with the most recent storage systems such as DVDs, CDs, and flash memory. Section 3.3 discusses the various data and file formats used. These include ASCII and binary file formats, generic binary file formats such as the JPEG format for images or the PS formats for vector graphics, and software-specific file formats (such as the Microsoft Word file DOC format or the MATLAB binary MAT format).