Software codes for SIGRID Java-browser were written by Evgeny Shvedov and 
Vasily Smolyanitsky (vms@aari.nw.ru), Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, 
to support software exchange within WMO project "Global Digital Sea Ice Data Bank".

The Java-browser is freeware if proper reference to the authors and project will be 
made as stated above. Current version is a beta one and was tested under Netscape 
version 4.5 and and IE 5.0. We are thinking about more features, namely: 
possibility to view in polar stereographic,
make a gridded output including EASE-GRID, superimpose a land-mask.

All necessary classes are packed into archive sigrid.jar. The main class is 
<Sig.class>. The same code will work both locally and remotely. The user should 
specify kind of work with the help of <is_local> parameter value, where "0" 
states remote type and "1" states local type of work. Possible HTML source for
local version can be :

<applet archive=sigrid.jar code=Sig.class width=600 height=400>
<param name=local value=0>
<param name=local_path value="/2000/">
</applet>