## Scenarios

You can download a viewer 'client' from our ftp site:

- ftp://ftp.pbl.nl/image/public
or
- ftp://ftp.pbl.nl/../image/public

There are currently two packages available:

1. USS_IMAGE2.2: viewer for scenarios of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment - MA (2005) project and IPCC SRES (2000) project
2. USS_IMAGE2.4-5:viewer for scenarios of OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050 (2012) project, Roads from Rio+20 (2012) project, EU Resource efficiency (2011) project

Each package has a 64bit and a 32bit variant. Choose the 64bit version if your system is 64bit based.

USS_IMAGE2.2 is available in zip format or wrapped in an installation.exe, USS2.4-5 only in zip format.

Scenario data resides on the PBL server. How to get and use the data, see below.

### How to start the viewer

The zipfile need to be unzipped somewhere on your system. Use the shortcuts 'start_<projectname>_viewer ' to start the viewer. The start view will show up and a browser window with the help, starting with the How to page,containing a short manual how to use the viewer.

### How to download data - graph

Position the cursor in the border of a box ( container) or graph. Right mouse click and select the option:

- Save selection as Excel...: A dataset will be created from the visible lines in the graph (your classes selection of the dimensions of the active dataset). You can save the (xml) file on your system.
- Save container as Excel...: A dataset will be created of all data of the selected graph or of all the graphs in a selected box (container) with exception of map data (see below).

Open the xml file with Excel.

### How to download data - map

Position the cursor in the border of the map. Right mouse click and select the option:

- Save...: You can save map data on your system. All available years will be included in the dataset. However this dataset only contains values for the IMAGE land cells. In order to use the data in GIS software, you will need to convert the dataset into ascii-grid format.

On the ftp site there is a conversion folder. it includes the zipped m2gis program. Download and unzip the program in its own folder on your system. Double click on the m2gis.exe and a form will guide you through the conversion.