[Spedas-list] SPEDAS 4.0 now available

[Jim Lewis]

The SPEDAS development team is pleased to announce the release of SPEDAS
4.0!

SPEDAS 4.0 includes numerous updates and enhancements to the command-line
TPLOT plotting and analysis tools, as well as the GUI plotting and analysis
tools. New plugins have been added to load MICA induction magnetometer
data, and Cluster datasets available via SPDF. Several other plugins were
updated with the latest available tools from their respective development
teams. In particular, the MMS plugin has been updated to fix a bug that
caused problems when using SPEDAS 3.2 to download data from the MMS Science
Data Center.

The latest IGRF-13 field model has been added to SPEDAS 4.0, and is now
used for coordinate transforms to and from the GSM system.

SPEDAS 4.0 includes support for downloading data from servers using the
DAS2 protocol. Several crib sheets are available showing how to download
data for the Galileo, Cassini, and Juno missions. This feature requires
installation of an external DLM and platform-specific shared library (much
like the GEOPACK and SPICE libraries), and is currently available for Linux
and Windows only. Many thanks to Alexander Drozdov at UCLA, and Chris Piker
at University of Iowa, for making DAS2 services available in SPEDAS!

For a more detailed list of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes since
SPEDAS 3.2, please see the release notes, at
http://spedas.org/downloads/SPEDAS_4_0_release_notes.pdf

As usual, SPEDAS 4.0 is available as a source code zip file (suitable for
users with full IDL licenses). For users without IDL licenses, we have also
released the SPEDAS 4.0 “virtual machine” executables for Linux, Mac, and
Windows. SPEDAS 4.0 downloads, installation instructions, and
platform-specific installation notes are available via the SPEDAS wiki
Downloads and Installation page
<http://spedas.org/wiki/index.php?title=Downloads_and_Installation> .

Please email questions, bug reports, help requests, and enhancement
suggestions to SPEDAS_Science_Support at ssl.berkeley.edu

The SPEDAS software development has been supported by NASA contracts
NAS5-02099 (THEMIS mission), NNG17PZ01C  (SPEDAS general development), and
NNG04EB99C (MMS sub-contract).  We would also like to thank the many
software developers and SPEDAS users who have supported the development
effort by contributing code, reporting problems, and suggesting
enhancements.
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