The 52North Earth Observation Community supports the use of free near real-time environmental and Earth Observation data
(in-situ, airborne and space based) and derived products for a worldwide user community. This capability, in conjunction 
with data from freely accessible archives, provides the possibility to obtain a multitude of environmental and Earth 
Observation related data. This information is highly relevant for various application domains such as weather, atmosphere,
oceans, land, vegetation, water and environment. The installation is licensed under the GNU General Public License Version
2 (June 1991) and user guide documentation provided are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0
License. You can find copies of both licenses within this release bundle (GPL-v2.txt, CC-BY-NC-3.0.txt)


The In Situ and Online Data Toolbox plug-in relies on several software components (libraries, programs) provided externally.
These Other libraries and software used are all free-of-charge and publicly available, but may subject to specific licensing terms and 
conditions such as open source license. For informational purposes only, and without intending to provide an exhaustive list, here is a
list of these third-party software components:



GDAL:

GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is released under an X/MIT style Open Source license
by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for 
all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful commandline utilities for data translation and processing. 
Within the toolbox use is made of gdal_translate, gdal_warp and gdal_contour. The GDAL library is provided in the toolbox under
'WFS_E-Toolbox\GDAL'.  
 

project site and source access at: http://www.gdal.org/

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wgrib and wgrib2:

WGRIB and WGIB2 are programs to manipulate, inventory and decode GRIB files.


project site and source access at: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/wesley/wgrib.html and 
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/wesley/wgrib2/index.html respectively

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7Zip:

7-Zip is open source software. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. The unRAR code is under a mixed license:
GNU LGPL + unRAR restrictions.

project site and source access at: http://www.7-zip.org/

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Wget:

GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. 
It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc. 

project site and source access at: https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

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All other resources used are developed within ITC or have to be downloaded and installed by the user themselves 
(like Java, Irfanview, Notepad++, Panoply, etc). The link to these resources is provided in the Installation and User Manual.


