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Want to give it a try before you buy? Download the three day demo of WeatherNet with GRIB Explorer and MetMapper software.

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"This new tool allows you to perform basic operations on conventional weatherfax charts, satellite images, radar and most other image products. OCENS georeferenced standard graphical weather products and, when viewed in MetMapper, you can click on a low-pressure system in one forecast period, click on the forecast position of that low in the next period, and MetMapper computes direction and distance the low is moving. Your position is plotted by MetMapper. MetMapper can compute range and bearing to the front on a synoptic chart, satellite or radar image."

Chris Parker is the author of Coastal and Offshore Weather and prepares forecasts for the Caribbean Weather Center.
Ocean Voyager 2007, Posted On: 7/25/2007

Features and Benefits:

• Displays and processes weather maps, ocean charts, satellite images, NEXRAD radar scans, buoy graphs and text analyses and forecasts;
• Automatically adds an interactive map layer (i.e. geo-referencing) to a massive library of graphical weather and ocean products. OCENS continuous additions to this library are rapidly acquired through a convenient file transfer mechanism
• Sensibly auto-orients the map, chart or image to a north-up perspective
• Custom mapping capabilities allow you to create and save map overlays for charts of special interest to you.
• Powerful animation routines put the weather in motion through sequences you retrieve from OCENS WeatherNet or quickly build yourself;
• GPS integration places your boat position inside of geo-referenced maps and animations;
• Plot vessel tracks for one or more vessels and/or fleets delivered to you by OCENS tracking services.
• Selectable map background hues allow you to tailor MetMapper views to the ambient day or night lighting conditions that you encounter. Create a custom look and feel for your maps by associating geographic grids, political boundaries, coastlines, and geographic features with their own colors and spatial resolutions.

OCENS WeatherNet is the world's most comprehensive resource of weather and ocean data. Although MetMapper will view and process weather and ocean graphics you acquire from almost any source, its seamless union with WeatherNet creates a rare synergy between products destined to improve your ability to acquire and transform raw weather data into useful weather information:

• Launch WeatherNet and easily select the maps and charts you want to review.
• Download content quickly and efficiently even over low bandwidth satellite and cell phone connections with WeatherNet's File Transfer engine.
• Automatically launch MetMapper at the end of your WeatherNet session to display and process your acquired files.
• Maps are geo-referenced on-the-fly in MetMapper as it loads the files onto your computer screen.
• Animations begin to roll with one click of the button.
• No fumbling trying to find acquired files at a later date because WeatherNet keeps them organized in its hierarchical content library. Just double-click on the file in the WeatherNet library and WeatherNet silently launches MetMapper to review and process.

MetMapper Companionship:

As a member of OCENS Weather Explorer series, MetMapper presents a comfortable graphical user interface similar to that you've grown used to in GRIB Explorer and other OCENS software packages. This consistency of presentation, along with the compatibility with WeatherNet, allows you to be benefiting from MetMapper within minutes of your first use. And such common ground also permits you to comfortably transition between your views of weather through the MetMapper lens of weather charts and satellite imagery and the weather perspective you gain from GRIB Explorer's powerful rendering of GRIB weather.