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These are the release notes for the ASTER DAR Tool.  They contain: 

Notes

Features

What’s New

System Requirements

Reporting Problems

Known Problems 

Notes

 

The DAR Tool is capable of running in any browser that supports Adobe Flash Player version 8.0 or higher.   

If your browser does not have a flash plug-in, you may download one at http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/ .   

The DAR Tool has been tested in Internet Explorer (version 6.0), Firefox (version 2.0), Opera  (version 9.10),  Safari (version 2.0) on multiple operating systems including Windows, OS X, and Linux.  

Old DAR Tool data from the previous Tool will be available to you when you log on to the new DAR tool. 
 

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Features

 

This release of the DAR tool supports the following features: 

• User authentication through ECHO
• Display DARs, Searchs, and Search Results
• Create Data Acqusition Requests (DARs)
• copy DARs
• Submit DARs to ASTER Ground Data Systems (GDS)
• Modify Submitted DARs cloud coverage setting (if avoid clouds flag was set to yes)
• Suspend or Activate Submitted DARs
• Search xAR database to retrieve DAR information and status
• Display search results in graphical and tabular format
• Download search results to CSV(comma separated value) file that can be used by most spreadsheet applications
• Copy DARs
• Create new DARs from search results
• Estimate DAR budget usage
• On-line help information

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What’s New

 

New features of the DAR Tool: 

• Support for OS X based browsers
• Better Browser Integration of the Application
• Interactive Acqusition Timeline display
• Database backend for DAR data to eliminate problems with user session files
• Migration process for moving user account from old tool to new tool.
• User data migrated from old
• Export Search results.

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System Requirements

 

• OS X, Windows or Linux. 
• Browser capable of running flash (Internet Explorer 6.0 and up, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and others).

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Reporting Problems

 

If you have problems running the tool or would like to submit a problem report, please send mail to LPDAAC@eos.nasa.gov or call EROS LP DAAC User Services at 605-594-6116.  When submitting a problem report, please include a detailed description of the problem along with the following configuration information: 

• Operating System (eg., Windows XP)
• Browser Version (eg.  Firefox 2.0.2)
• CPU Type and speet (eg. Intel Core Duo 2GHz)
• Memory Size (eg. 1GB)

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Known Problems

• Using the refresh button on your browser will reload the DAR Tool and take you back to the login screen. This is due to design of the Tool.
• When Selecting Tools >> ASTER Overpass Predictor w/ current values, you must have a future temporal range specified. The spatial lat and long corrdinates will be the current centerpoint of the map from the Create DAR spatial tab.
• Selecting File >> Open to open a previous DAR in the Organizer tab does not unlock the fields in the Create DAR tab if they were previously locked. The workaround to open the DAR is to double click on the deisred DAR in the Organizer tab.