MIMS Spatial Allocator User's Guide


	1. Introduction
	2. Background on Shapefiles and Surrogates
	3. Using the Software 3.1. Download and Installation 3.2. Runing the Test Cases Using Scripts 3.3. Environment Variables Used by the Software 3.4. Specifying Grids, Ellipsoids and Map Projections
	4. Surrogate Computation and Quality Assurance Summary 4.1. Using Java-based Surrogate Tools for all Surrogate Computations, Quality Summary Table Generation, and Surrogate Normalization 4.2. Generating Surrogates from Weight Shapefiles 4.3. Generating Surrogates by Merging Existing Surrogates 4.4. Gap Filling Computed Surrogates
	5. Creating Inputs to SMOKE Biogenic Processing
	6. Converting Map Projections of ShapeFiles
	7. Other Spatial Functions 7.1. Spatially Allocating Attributes (e.g., create CMAQ OCEANfile) 7.2. Overlaying Spatial Data 7.3. Filtering a Shapefile 7.4 Computing Grid Cells for Point Source Data
	8. Revision History
	9. Future Enhancements
	10. Licenses and List of External Software Used