diff --git a/_posts/2022/2022-08-17-Ocean-Data-Viewer.md b/_posts/2022/2022-08-17-Ocean-Data-Viewer.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d79d8dc6070188ce163bf153cdcdaff16b180f80 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2022/2022-08-17-Ocean-Data-Viewer.md @@ -0,0 +1,130 @@ +--- +title: "Ocean Data View (webODV): Soon in Helmholtz Cloud" +title_image: "odv5-logo.jpg" +data: 2022-08-17 +authors: + - "Mieruch-Schnülle, Sebastian" + - jandt +layout: blogpost +additional_css: + - image-scaling.css +categories: + - Use-Case +tags: + - Earth & Environment +excerpt: > + webODV — Online extraction, analysis and visualization of environmental data. + We already introduced the software amongst the “Helmholtz Software Spotlights†series. + Now, we are planning to provide private webODV instances as <a href="https://helmholtz.cloud/services">Helmholtz Cloud service</a>, + which can be easily accessed online: Users can login via the Helmholtz AAI and will have a workspace to upload private data. +--- + +## webODV — Online extraction, analysis and visualization of environmental data + +<div class="floating-boxes"> +<div class="image-box align-right"> +<img +class="right medium nonuniform" +alt="webODV logo" +src="{% link assets/img/posts/2022-08-17-odv/webODV_logo_v3_2_trans.jpg %}" +/> +</div> +<div class="text-box" markdown="1"> +[ODV (Ocean Data View)](https://odv.awi.de/) is a widely used software +package for the analysis, exploration and visualization of +oceanographic and other environmental data with more than 10,000 +active users. +It has been developed at +[Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)](https://awi.de). +</div> +<div class="text-box" markdown="1"> +ODV is by design a stand-alone software, which can be +installed on Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. To simplify +the access to ODV and to strengthen collaborations, reproducibility +and sharing, we have developed an online version of the ODV software +called [webODV](https://webodv.awi.de/). Up to now, we are operating +several **static** webODV instances +([1](https://geotraces.webodv.awi.de/), +[2](https://mvre.webodv.cloud.awi.de/), +[3](https://emodnet-chemistry.webodv.awi.de/), +[4](https://explore.webodv.awi.de/)), +which provide large datasets for fast +and easy data extractions, visualizations and analyses online. +</div> +<div class="text-box" markdown="1"> +In the framework of HIFIS, we already introduced the software amongst the ["Helmholtz Software Spotlights" series]({% link spotlights.md %}). +Now, we are planning to provide **private webODV +instances as [Helmholtz Cloud service](https://helmholtz.cloud/services)**, which can be easily accessed online: Users can login via the +Helmholtz AAI and will have a workspace to upload private data. +</div> +</div> +<div class="clear"></div> + +### Concept + +<div class="floating-boxes"> +<div class="image-box align-left"> +<img +class="left large nonuniform" +alt="webODV concept" +src="{% link assets/img/posts/2022-08-17-odv/concept.jpg %}" +/> +</div> +<div class="text-box" markdown="1"> +The webODV application consists of a browser client (mainly based on +HTML, CSS and JavaScript) and a server, holding the datasets and +running a special version of the ODV software. The key to +make webODV truly interactive and as fast and agile as desktop +software is the usage of the WebSocket technology for communication +between client and server. +</div> +<div class="text-box" markdown="1"> +WebSockets are permanent, bi-directional connections between client +and server for transmission of arbitrary text or binary messages with +very small latency. +</div> +</div> +<div class="clear"></div> + +### Services + +Presently, webODV provides two complementary services. Users select +between these services after choosing a dataset. + +- **Data Extractor**: +The Data Extraction service provides data sub-setting as easy and fast +as possible. A pager on the top of the site guides the user through +the pages, which includes mainly the selection of stations, variables +and finally the download of the data as text files, ODV collections or +netCDF files. + + +- **Data Explorer**: +The Data Exploration service or ODV-online aims to provide the +look-and-feel and functionality of the desktop ODV in the browser +window for creating maps, surface plots, section plots, scatter plots, +filtering data etc. As in the desktop ODV, left mouse clicks on stations or +data points select these items. Right-clicks bring up context menus +providing the familiar ODV functionality. + + +### Reproducibility +FAIR data is one +of the key concepts of modern and future oriented data science. +Analyses and visualizations which have been created with ODV-online +can be saved or exported and provide full reproducibility. + +## Examples + +{:.treat-as-figure} + +Figure 1: A section plot through the Arctic ocean showing the iron concentration. A highly active hydrothermal vent (e.g. Black Smoker, White Smoker) is visible over an undersea mountain ridge. + +{:.treat-as-figure} + +Figure 2: Salinity in about 1250 m depth in the North Atlantic clearly showing the high-salinity plume of the Mediterranean outflow. + +## Get in contact +For webODV: [Sebastian Mieruch-Schnülle](mailto:sebastian.mieruch@awi.de), AWI + +For HIFIS: [HIFIS Support](mailto:support@hifis.net) diff --git a/assets/img/jumbotrons/odv5-logo.jpg b/assets/img/jumbotrons/odv5-logo.jpg new file mode 120000 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..583cc0d9183083eeeb7e1dfc8b12ee20214af136 --- /dev/null +++ b/assets/img/jumbotrons/odv5-logo.jpg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +../spotlights/odv_plus/odv5-logo.jpg \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/assets/img/posts/2022-08-17-odv/ODV_image.png b/assets/img/posts/2022-08-17-odv/ODV_image.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7af12149533b9bec6f78d47607bebaab9963c9a9 Binary files /dev/null and b/assets/img/posts/2022-08-17-odv/ODV_image.png differ diff --git a/assets/img/posts/2022-08-17-odv/argo.png b/assets/img/posts/2022-08-17-odv/argo.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d85c8da8f283a08179587939d2952c7d8784e5e5 Binary files /dev/null and b/assets/img/posts/2022-08-17-odv/argo.png differ diff --git a/assets/img/posts/2022-08-17-odv/concept.jpg b/assets/img/posts/2022-08-17-odv/concept.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..abd2facdd3780e1b32895175ced1879ceb5b11ed Binary files /dev/null and b/assets/img/posts/2022-08-17-odv/concept.jpg differ diff --git a/assets/img/posts/2022-08-17-odv/webODV_logo_v3_2_trans.jpg b/assets/img/posts/2022-08-17-odv/webODV_logo_v3_2_trans.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..38ba1decd8193bb540ca084187c8615e73a1a573 Binary files /dev/null and b/assets/img/posts/2022-08-17-odv/webODV_logo_v3_2_trans.jpg differ