1 Desktop Support for HDF and HDF EOS Ted Meyer President & CEO fortnersoftware LLC (703) ext.119

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3 Noesys VP HDF Features Complete point-and-click access to HDF –View file organization Drag & Drop Components –View, create and edit datasets –View, create and edit vdatas –View, create and edit text & numeric attributes –Create Vgroups –View, create and edit images and palettes –Macro processing of datasets, vdatas

4 Noesys VP 1.3 Features Drag & Drop Components across file and into Vgroups Point and Click Global Projections - equidistant cylindrical, mercator, orthographic and stereographic Mapping Datasets & Macros for Continental, State, National borders New Translators - Import DTED, Text, Binary, BMP, TIFF into Datasets, Vdatas, Attribute, Vgroups Advanced macros provided on the CD illustrate how to superimpose continental, country, and state boundaries Execute code quickly by clicking the Text Editor's Run button. Import attributes into Data Tables Transform 3.4 –Improved file sharing with Noesys –Data Access by component name Improved Get Information dialog On-line help available via the Help menu Plug-ins Under Development SDTS, SEG-Y, GeoTIFF

5 Total HDF Data Access

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8 Noesys VP 1.4 Features HDF GUI Subsetting Data Manipulator Plug-ins HDF EOS –Grid, Point, & Swath Component Drag and Drop –Grid Imager –Subsetting GeoTIFF/HDF EOS Grid/SDTS Translation Edge Detection False Color User Input Requested Join our Technical Advisory Board Beta Testing Feature Prioritization

9 Noesys Personal WebView Publish Data on Web On-line Collaboration Share Data in Works Groups Subset, Image, Examine Data On-line Setup in Minutes - Add data in seconds Windows 95/98 & NT - 4Q98 Mac - Q1 99

10 HDF Browser A useful and popular Windows and Mac utility to open and view HDF files Promotes standard and supports the HDF community Showcase for Noesys ease-of-access and functionality New version in November Free HDF EOS Support in subsequent releases Fortner Software has established and is supporting a Web clearinghouse for HDF: utilities, applications, information, documentation, and data sources Government, commercial, and university HDF users, developers and data producers are welcome to provide utilities, information, data, and links

11 Fortner Releases Noesys Version 1.3 –Available Now HDF-to-Photoshop plug-in for Power Macintosh –Opens 2D HDF Datasets and Raster images directly into Adobe™ Photoshop™ 3.0+ –Fortner Software and Always Thinking, Inc. –Available Now Noesys Version 1.4 –January 1999 Noesys Personal WebView –Fall 1998 Test data is requested

12 Partnering/Support Fortner Software is interested in partnering with commercial vendors, science teams, DAACs, government organizations, and other groups to provide development and consulting services for desktop application development and HDF, HDF EOS and other science data standards. Plug-in Development for Vertical Applications Data Translation and Migration Tools Development and Services Fortner Software is working as an integrated part of the NCSA HDF team to develop the Windows 95/NT and MacOS versions of the HDF libraries.

13 Wrap-up –Noesys - The desktop HDF application –Noesys Personal WebView –Fortner supports HDF & HDF EOS –Partnerships/Development & Consulting Service fortnersoftware LLC Officers and Staff Brand FortnerChairman x120 Ted MeyerCEO & President x119 Enrico SantosCFO x107