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MCAS-S Tool

The MCAS-S CD contains a number of files, including an MCAS installer, sample datasets, setup and the MCAS-S user guide. While all these files are available on the MCAS-S CD, you can download the MCAS-S installer (14.3mb) and the MCAS-S user guide (2.7mb).

The MCAS-S CD (including sample datasets) will soon be availlable through the BRS Shop.

Downloads

• MCAS installer
• MCAS-S user guide

Once downloaded, double clicking on the MCAS folder will bring up a series of instructions that guide the user through the installation of the MCAS-S software. The software should be installed on the C: drive. Installing the program will add the MCAS-S icon to the desktop. Double clicking on the MCAS application icon will start MCAS-S.

Sample datasets for MCAS-S

Included with MCAS-S Version 2.0 are a number of sample spatial datasets for Australia, suitable for use at the national scale. Appendixes 1–3 in the MCAS-S user guide list sample datasets distributed with the MCAS-S application software. Users can either use the sample datasets from the Data folder or create and install their own datasets. The sample datasets listed in Appendix 1 can be copied to the \Data\Primary folder; Appendix 2 datasets to the \Data\Overlay folder; and Appendix 3 datasets to the \Data\Mask folder. Gridded sample datasets have been generated as geographic raster images at approximately five-kilometre resolution.

These datasets have been supplied by the Bureau of Rural Sciences, Geoscience Australia, the Department of Environment and Water, the National Land and Water Audit, the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO Land and Water.