Software Components for Data Visualisation

The Digital Earth Viewer is a component-wise scalable web-based framework for simultaneous visualisation of multiple heterogenous data sources. It helps contextualise mixed observation and simulation data in time and space by creating a virtual 4D environment for the user to explore.

The software was conceived as a hybrid application split into a server back-end and a client front-end. The server back-end can be hosted remotely for access through the internet or locally for offline usage. The client front-end can be accessed using any popular web browser without the need to install any other software components.

Currently, general-purpose-sources are implemented for the netCDF, ESRI ASCII Grid, and CSV file formats, as well as facilities to load data from WMS or Maptile-servers or to interact with SQLite databases. Specialised sources have been built to read and display Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data, GPX tracks, and further application-specific formats. As the Digital Earth Viewer is under constant development, new sources and functionalities are being added all the time!

You can try the public demo here.

Project members can access the source code here.

Web-based components and techniques for data visualisation
https://git.geomar.de/digital-earth/de-frontend-framework