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Spotlight on MINX MISR INteractive eXplorer V3.0 Version 3.0 is now available for MAC OS X, Windows and Linux (NEW)! MINX is an interactive application written in IDL and compiled into an IDL Virtual Machine (VM) file. It functions both as a general-purpose tool to visualize MISR data and as a specialized tool to analyze properties of smoke, volcanic and dust plumes, especially plume height and velocity. It includes high-level options to create: MP4 animation of MISR's view of overlapping smoke plumes and towering... Read more...

Newly Hosted Applications iCara A Human-Factors Usability Tool iCara is a basic usability testing tool designed for covert data recording of user interface activity within controlled laboratory-based usability research. As a local-PC installed program, iCara does not require remote server internet-based services to record user activity. In addition, iCara provides a means by which user activity data can... Read more... Hosting discipline: Psychometrics MINX MISR INteractive eXplorer V3.0 Version 3.0 is now available for MAC OS X, Windows and Linux (NEW)! MINX is an interactive application written in IDL and compiled into an IDL Virtual Machine (VM) file. It functions both as a general-purpose tool to visualize MISR data and as a specialized tool to analyze properties of smoke,... Read more... Hosting discipline: Visualization and Virtual Reality STARS Multidisciplinary Finite Element Computer Program for Analysis of Engineering Systems STARS is a multidisciplinary, finite element-based, graphics oriented, linear and nonlinear analysis tool. Its range of application includes structural analysis, heat transfer, linear aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) as well as coupled linear and CFD-based aeroelastic, aeroacoustics, aerothermoelastic-acoustics, and aeroservoelastic analysis. STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS Static Stability Vibration Dynamic response (transient, harmonic, random, seismic) General... Read more... Hosting discipline: Finite Element Analysis TIS Tool Thermal Insulation System Analysis Tool The Thermal Insulation System Analysis Tool (TISTool) was developed starting in 2004 by Jonathan Demko and James Fesmire. The first edition was written in Excel and Visual Basic as macros. It included the basic shapes such as a flat plate, cylinder, dished head, and sphere. The data... Read more... Hosting discipline: Thermal Tools VicarPdsIO VICAR and PDS Image I/O package for Java This package contains Java code to read and write VICAR and PDS image files, and read ISIS image files. It is a software library intended for use with applications rather than a standalone package, but a SimpleConvert program exists as a test/demo. Formats Supported There are 3 different methods of... Read more... Hosting discipline: Visualization and Virtual Reality