Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Oceanography / September 2005

Hello,

We have created some ocean colour tools for
visualizing various satellite products on
the web.

The online tools have now been made publicly
accessable via:

http://www.borstad.com/grip.html

One of the tools is a temporal profiler
using seawifs 8 day global composite data
for the period spanning August 28 1997
through October 31 2004.

The map currently spans -180 to 0 degrees
West Longitude and 0 to 90 degrees North
Latitude, however, we do have the same data
for the complete globe and may be able to
set up the interface to allow for the broader
map or other datasets.

Some of the interfaces can be a bit slow
since they are churning through a great deal of
data and drawing 'on the fly'.  A small
amount of patience may be required while waiting
for things to render on some of the interfaces.
For example, the temporal profiler has more than
a gigabyte of data for each product to search through
while rendering. We have attempted to optimize the
interfaces to be as fast as possible using any standard
web browser.

Enjoy,

P Willis