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*  Swiss Aircraft Noise Calculation Test Environment (SANCTE)  *
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This is the SANC-TE Version 2.0 data set. SANC-TE is a complete 
test environment, a database containing standardized information
used to test aircraft noise calculation programs. The dataset 
contains the test environment itself, a detailed documentation 
and additional utilities that support users to display and 
analyze the results.


SANC-TE_2_0
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This directory contains the original SANC-TE data sets.
All input data describing the SANC-TE test environment
is contained in pure ASCII files. Detailed information
on SANCTE data is given in the documentation enclosed.


WASMER
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This directory contains a self extracting EXE-file to install
NMPLot Version 4.958. Wasmer Consulting developed NMPLot as a
Microsoft Windows application. It is a light weight GIS to work
with georeferenced data sets. NMPlot is distributed (open source
code) as acknowledgeware and may be freely downloaded and used. 

NMPlot uses NMGF as its standard grid data format. A detailed
description of this format is enclosed as well. It comes with
the source code of a free c++ library to read and handle NMGF
data sets as ASCII files or in their binary form. For latest
versions of NMPlot/NMGF see:  http://www.wasmerconsulting.com.


SURPLUS
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Some geometrical elements of the SANC-TE environment are given
as NMGF GRD-files that can be processed with NMPlot for a first
overview. Additional POI-files may help with easy interpolation
of calculated sound levels at specified immission points.


                                 Switzerland, April 14th 2014