User's guide

Assuming you have the software installed, the best place to start is with one of the Crib Sheets.

The installation contains mission specific crib sheets in the idl/projects/<project name>/examples/ folders. These give end-to-end examples of how to load, process and plot the data available for a given mission and instrument. Cribs for general purpose plotting using tplot may be found in idl/general/examples/.

The following provide detailed information on the SPEDAS software:

• File Organization - What directories and files are installed
• Command Line Functions - SPEDAS command line functions
• The Graphical User Interface
  1. Main Window
  2. Mouse and Keyboard Events
  3. File Menu
  4. Data Menu
     • Load Data from Plug-ins
     • Load Data using CDAWlib
  5. Analysis Menu
     • Magnetic Field Models in the SPEDAS GUI - Information on using the SPEDAS GUI to generate and trace geomagnetic field models
  6. Plot Menu
  7. Pages Menu
  8. Tools Menu
  9. Edit Menu
  10. View Menu
  11. Help Menu

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