[Spedas-list] SPEDAS 2.00 released and available for download

[Jim Lewis]

The SPEDAS development team is pleased to announce the final release of 
SPEDAS version 2.00!


New features and capabilities for this release include:

Support for HTTPS downloads (now required by several data sources)

A new load routine, hapi_load_data, to support downloading data via the 
new Heliophysics API.
A crib sheet is available in general/examples/crib_hapi.pro.

ISEE 3D particle data visualization tool, with support for displaying 
THEMIS, MMS, and GEOTAIL data.
A crib sheet is available in 
projects/themis/examples/advanced/thm_crib_isee3d.pro.

Updated IGRF coefficients through 2015

Numerous bug fixes and efficiency improvements

Updated plugins:
MMS (curlometer code, ISEE 3d plots, angle-angle plots)

THEMIS (combined electron and ion moments, improved SST calibrations, 
improved spacecraft
potential estimates, support for additional GMAG networks and sites, 
support for ESA low energy mode)

ERG/IUGONET (updated load routines for better HTTP and future HTTPS 
support)


The SPEDAS 2.00 IDL source code release can be downloaded from the 
spedas.org web site:
http://spedas.org/wiki/index.php?title=Downloads_and_Installation

The IDL source code release requires an IDL license.  In a few weeks, we 
expect to release a set of
SPEDAS 2.00 executable files, which use the IDL Virtual Machine to allow 
access to the SPEDAS Graphical
User Interface, with no IDL license required.  That release is pending, 
while we work through the process
of renewing our IDL "Right to Distribute" agreement which is required 
for us to build the executable files.
In the meantime, users without IDL licenses can download executables 
based on a SPEDAS 2.00 beta
release,  from January 2017.  Please visit the spedas.org Downloads and 
Installation link mentioned above
for download and installation instructions.

We are grateful to NASA Headquarters for their support of the SPEDAS 
development effort.