Proceedings Article | 27 October 2011
KEYWORDS: Satellites, Geographic information systems, Visualization, Oceanography, Databases, Data centers, Human-machine interfaces, Visual analytics, Statistical analysis, Remote sensing
The ocean satellite observation is more and more important to study the global change, protect
ocean resource and implement ocean engineering for their large area cover and high frequency
observation, which have already given us a global view of ocean environment parameters, including
the sea surface temperature, ocean color, wind, wave, sea level and sea ice, etc... China has made great
progress in ocean environment remote sensing over the last couple of years. These data are widely used
for a variety of applications in ocean environment studies, coastal water quality monitoring
environmental, fishery resources protection, development and utilization of fishery resources, coastal
engineering and oceanography. But the data are no online information access and dissemination, no
online visualization & browsing, no online query and analyze capability. To facilitate the application of
the data and to help disseminating the data, a web-service system has developed. The system provides
capabilities of online oceanic satellite information access, query, visualize and analyze. It disseminates
oceanic satellite data to the users via real time retrieval, processing and publishing through
standards-based geospatial web services. A region of interest can also be exported directly to Google
Earth for displaying or downloaded. This web service system greatly improves accessibility,
interoperability, usability, and visualization of oceanic satellite data without any client-side software
installation.
