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SDC Viewer

Gregory Giuliani edited this page Aug 16, 2018 · 9 revisions

The Swiss Data Cube Viewer is a web-based front-end allowing to interact with EO data generated by the SDC and published using GeoServer.

Main functionalities

  • Visualizing and Downloading single raster product layers
    • Visualization of a given layer can be activated with the checkbox in the Productstab. Legend is provided & users can modify the opacity.
    • Download can done directly in Download tab by selecting the product and the provided file format.
  • Visualizing and Downloading time-series raster product layers
    • Visualization of a raster time-series can be activated with the checkbox in the Productstab. Legend is provided & users can modify the opacity. In addition, a time-slider appears on the bottom left of the map window.
    • Download can done directly in Download tab by selecting the product and the provided file format.
  • Generating graph for a given pixel of a time-series raster product layer
    • When a time-series raster is activated, the cursor style will change to crosshair indicating that users can query the layer. He can click on a pixel of the time-series layer. A popup will appear with the values of the pixel through time. A View Graphlink allows to view the values as graph.
  • Access products in your own client with WMS & WCS standards
    • tools/webservices to get the full listed of supported services
  • Metadata support
    • Each layer is described with an ISO19115 metadata. The description is available by clicking on the small icon on the right of each product.
    • Alternatively, users can also use the CSW and OpenSearch-EO services.

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Data publication backend

The SDC Viewer uses GeoServer as data publication server for all products generated with the Swiss Data Cube. It provides interoperable discovery(CSW, OpenSearch), visualization(WMS, WMTS), download (WCS) services to data using OGC standards. It supports also EO extensions, see GeoServer EO extensions. All supported services are listed in the application under tools/webservices