Welcome to ORAC

ORAC is an optimal estimation retrieval scheme for the estimation of aerosol and cloud properties from visible-infrared imaging satellites such as MODIS, AATSR, AVHRR and MERIS.

Currently available documentation:

• ORAC
  • ORAC - Code overview
  • Products - Available datasets
  • People - Contributers to ORAC
  • Publications - List of peer reviewed publications
  • Presentations - presentations on ORAC
  • ORAC History and Project Support - History of the project and funding support
  • Meetings and Email Lists - Communication between ORAC scientists
  • ORAC Logo - ORAC logo
  • ORAC FAQ? - A collection of Frequently Asked Questions
• SACURA
  • SACURA - Code overview
• User Guide
  • Installation - How to install ORAC
  • Input Files - A description of the Static Application Data (SAD) files etc. required by the ORAC code
  • ORAC User Manual - The ORAC User Manual contains a detailed description of the driver file fields and how to set them, plus details of reading output files, error tracing etc
  • Output Files - An overview of the output files produced by ORAC. See also the section in the ORAC User Manual for details of how to read output files
  • License - The conditions imposed for the use of this code
• Developer Guide
  • Code To Do - Bug list and list of open tasks to improve ORAC
  • Coding Guide - Coding guide
  • SVNUploading - Protocol for code updates
  • Testbed - Standard procedure for evaluating code changes
  • The Version Control Subsystem
    • SVNGuide
• Site Maintance
  • Wiki To Do- List of open tasks to improve this Wiki
  • TracGuide - Built-in documentation

For a complete list of local wiki pages, see TitleIndex.

This file and the associated documentation and source code files are part of ORAC. ORAC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. ORAC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with ORAC. If not, see  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.