A library of Matlab routines for loading, manipulating and visualizing Slocum glider data files

John Kerfoot
Institute of Marine & Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University
[email protected]
(848) 932-3344

Documentation for this toolbox is available on the Wiki.

This toolbox provides 2 core classes, Dbd and DbdGroup, which provide a mechanism for manipulating individual data files as well as groups of data files, respectively. There are also a variety of utility routines for, among other things:

• Conversion of Matlab dates to unix dates
• Convertion of NMEA GPS coordinates to and from decimal degrees
• File operations
• Exporting data to a variety of data structures and file formats
• Plotting data sets

The toolbox currently uses the CSIRO Matlab EOS-80 Seawater Library to derive oceanic properties from the raw glider measurements.

A copy of the last stable version can also be found here.

Development of the CSIRO Matlab EOS-80 Seawater Library toolbox has been stopped in favor of the Gibbs SeaWater (GSW) Oceanographic Toolbox of the International Thermodynamic Equation of Seawater (TEOS-10), which can be found here.

As of August 2014, I have not made the switch to the GSW toolbox.