The Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (OPeNDAP), developed at the University of Rhode Island, enables remote datasets to be accessed through familiar data analysis and visualization packages, just as if they resided locally on the user's machine. OPeNDAP handles transport, translation, and subsetting of data residing in most Earth science data formats, and provides tools for transforming existing applications into OPeNDAP clients (for example, enabling them to remotely access OPeNDAP served data). View OPeNDAP documentation and resources.

OPeNDAP requires the use of Earthdata Login account. Watch our video tutorial to learn how to sign up for an account.