Analysis & Modeling

Analysis refers to software intended to analyze data, whether it be mathematical, instrumental, quantitative, or qualitative. This category includes many research and statistical packages as well as graphing tools for showing data trends and correlations.

Modeling software focuses on the digital creation or the digital re-creation of a design. Modeling software allows for digital simulation to explore possibilities, theories, and simulate results. It also allows for easy viewing of the design from perspectives that would otherwise be difficult.

This category includes mapping tools, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) tools, plotting tools, landscape analysts, and geological structure tool. Also included is Software for statistical gathering, analysis, computation, and visualization. Often used in research, polling, or surveying.

Flash and Flash Studio

November 19, 2014 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Analysis & ModelingDesign & VisualizationMath & ProgrammingMultimedia

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Availability (Flash Studio): Labs | Faculty/Staff | Download
Part of: Adobe Creative Suite
Comparable: After Effects (animation)

Adobe Flash (formerly called Macromedia Flash and Shockwave Flash) is a multimedia and software platform used for creating vector graphics, animation, games and rich Internet applications (RIAs) that can be viewed, played and executed in Adobe Flash Player. Flash is frequently used to add streamed video or audio players, advertisement and interactive multimedia content to web pages, although usage of Flash on websites is declining.

Flash manipulates vector and raster graphics to provide animation of text, drawings, and still images. It allows bidirectional streaming of audio and video, and it can capture user input via mouse, keyboard, microphone and camera. Flash applications and animations can be programmed using the object-oriented language called ActionScript.

Adobe Flash Studio is the official Adobe authoring tool for creating the Flash content, which also allows automation via the JavaScript Flash language (JSFL). Flash Studio is included in the Adobe Creative Suite for Windows and Mac OS.

Adobe Flash Player makes the Flash content accessible on various operating systems such as Windows, OS X and Linux, and is available free of charge for common web browsers (as a plug-in) under a few of the major operating systems, some smartphones and tablets, and a few other electronic devices using Flash Lite.

The Flash Player installed in all Windows and Mac labs, and is installed by default on all faculty and staff computers.  Flash Studio is a part of the Adobe Creative Suite Design and Web Premium.  UNCC has a site license for all faculty and staff computers and it is available for installation upon request.

Lab Availability of Flash Studio
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Fragstats

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Analysis & Modeling
Availability: Labs
Comparable:  

FRAGSTATS is a computer software program designed to compute a wide variety of landscape metrics for categorical map patterns.  It interfaces with ArcGIS and supports  and a variety of sampling methods for analyzing sub-landscapes.  It accepts raster images in a variety of formats, including ASCII grid, 8-, 16- and 32-bit integer grids, ESRI grid (or raster), GeoTIFF grid, VTP binary terrain format grid, ESRI header labelled grid, ERDAS Imagine grid, PCRaster grid, and SAGA GIS binary format grid. Support for the latter six image formats is via the GDAL library.

Here is the FragStats official website.

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Gempak

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Analysis & Modeling
Availability: Labs  |  Free Download
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GEMPAK, the GEneral Meteorology PAcKage, is an analysis, display, and product generation package for meteorological data. It is developed by NCEP (the National Centers for Environmental Prediction) for use by the National Centers (Storm Prediction Center (SPC), Tropical Prediction Center (TPC), Aviation Weather Center (AWC), Hydrologic Prediction Center (HPC), Marine Prediction Center (MPC), Environmental Modeling Center (EMC), etc.) in producing operational forecast and analysis products such as those distributed as Redbook Graphics and others displayed on the NWS web pages and utilized internally within the centers. Graphical User Interfaces provide convenient access to interactive data manipulation. A comprehensive set of decoders enables integration of real-time and archive data, products, and bulletins. The GEMPAK distribution consists of a suite of application programs, Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), meteorologic computation libraries, graphic display interfaces, and device drivers for the decoding, analysis, display and diagnosis of geo-referenced and meteorological data.

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