NOAA STAR SOCD OceanView

  Welcome to the NOAA STAR SOCD Ocean Viewer:   Explore, Enjoy and Engage

Oceans are mysterious, beautiful and complex. While understanding the oceans is rewarding, the process itself is challenging. We may never fully decode the DNA of the ocean systems, but by using data from many sources, such as satellite sensors, in situ instruments and model outputs, and of many geophysical parameters, such as temperature, color, wind, height and salinity, we have incrementally and tremendoulsy improved upon our past understading.

The ultimate race of the human intelligence and exploration is to breakout of the limitations by pushing the frontiers of our knowledge – the understanding of the nature: the oceans, the atmosphere, and interaction of everything living and non-living contained within. There is no one foreseeable final frontier – each frontier will open gates to another frontier. One of the major support tools in this race is improved visualization of the information available to us through scientific and technical breakthroughs.

The Ocean Viewer (OV) is a step towards comprehensive visualization of multiple ocean products available from the Satellite Oceanography and Climate Division (SOCD) of NOAA STAR.

This is work in progress and we value your feedback.

Disclaimer: Data and images displayed on STAR sites are provided for experimental use only. Click for more information. Origin: NOAA STAR, Satellite Oceanography and Climate Division, 2020-

  Live Satellite Tracker
(updated each 15 sec)
Status Box



UTC Time Zone

Disclaimer: Data and images displayed on STAR sites are provided for experimental use only. Click for more information. Origin: NOAA STAR, Satellite Oceanography and Climate Division, 2019- .

  • Home
  • Settings to choose display layers
  • Mark events on a map with timeline
  • Visualize polar flight path and image
  • Track physical objects on a map
  • Visualize local client-side data
  • Tour 1 [ 2 min]: Left menu short intro Tour 2 [10 min]: Main module detail desc Tour 3 [ 5 min]: Right menu short intro Tour 4 [ 1 min]: Using the timeline

The OceanView (OV): an SOCD initiative

Introduction
Hit the play button, for the big picture.
Purpose
To empower oceanographers, satellite-users, & ocean enthusiasts to view the state of the oceans & associated events at any time and from anywhere.
Person
Prasanjit Dash  
NOAA STAR SOCD
CSU CIRA Res Sci III  Prasanjit Dash Innovation, Evolution, Dev
Paul DiGiacomo  
NOAA STAR SOCD
Chief, SOCD  Paul DiGiacomo Vision, Evolution, Direction
Contributions
Fronts from level-4 SST
Marouan Bouali
IOUSP, São Paulo, Brasil
 
Satellite Product Sources
SOCD source
The NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch Program
 
Polar images
Larry Connor, STAR SOCD LSA
 
SAR storms
Sean Helfrich, STAR SOCD MECB
 
Non-SOCD source
NASA JPL Physical Oceanography DAAC
 
Copernicus Marine Service
 
Useful discussion & feedback on technology
Ryan Boller  NASA GSFC, Worldview insight
 
Joe Roberts  NASA JPL, MRFGEN know-how
Other feedback/suggestions/pointers
Casey Shoup, Lori Brown, Joe Sapp, John Knaff, Sathyadev Ramachandran, Tyler Ruff, Andy Harris (NOAA STAR); Vardis Tsontos, Jorge Vazquez, Ed Armstrong, Thomas Huang (NASA JPL); Steve Miller (CSU CIRA)
Additional non-SOCD attributions
NASA GSFC/EONET, GEBCO, NOAA NCEI, USGSThese data are used for basemaps and vector overlays.
Opensource resources
Use of various open-source community resources distributed alongwith OSI-approved licenses is acknowledged. These include, but are not limited to:LeafLet (+plug-ins), GDAL, OpenCV, Python, JAVA, C, Bootstrap, Jquery, Jquery UI. The map color tables are from NASA GSFC.
Organization and Division
NOAA NESDIS STAR SOCD
Funding
Ocean Remote Sensing/JPSS

Search Events by Category & Name

Hurricanes path & point info in past 3 years

NCEI IBTrACS (active storms may be delayed)

SAR Hurricane WindSpeed Imagery

STAR SOCD AKDEMO (selected events & RADAR scenes)

Selected Oil Spill Incidents (NOAA OR&R)

US Spills since 1957 where NOAA OR&R provided support

Polar flight and satellite data

Operation Icebridge DMS (search by Date)

Arctic

Antarctic

Polar satellite images (future work)

Flight-Satellite MatchUp Placeholder

Track flying and sailing man-made objects

Current position of EO Satellites

Historical Ship Tracks (future work)

Ship Track Placeholder

Historical Saildrone Tracks (future work)

Saildrone Track Placeholder

Overlay local data (experimental)

Overlay data on the current view from a compatible local file (cf., sample files).
Supported file formats
- Text: CSV, geoJSON, KML, GPX
- Bundle: KMZ (KML,images; xsl unsupported)
Sample files
- CSV   geoJSON   KML   KMZ   GPX (orig src)
Recommended formats (attributes in popups)
CSV: non-lat/lon columns are treated as attributes
geoJSON: application will attempt a full parsing
KMZ: KML & Img (only Ground & Screen Overlays)

Date-specific ocean data & events

Satellite based parameter 1
Layer 01 legend-value checkboxes
Product description
Image credit: NOAA STAR SOCD
Satellite based parameter 2
Layer 02 legend-value checkboxes
Product description
Image credit: NOAA STAR SOCD
Velocity overlays (at an instance of time)

NOAA GFS

10m wind
animation rate:
Choose UTC:
 
4x daily: 00z

SOCD LSA

Surf Curr
animation rate:
L4 Ocean Fronts (experimental)
Based on SOCD geo-polar blended L4 SST
l ≥ km
∇≥K·km⁻¹
SST≥°C
Storm tracks (traversing the shown date)

Hurricanes (past 3yr) Src: IBTrACS
max WS ≥ knots
min P ≤ mb
+Earth events

Earthquakes Src: USGS
Magnitude ≥

Volcano
Wildfire
Src: NASA EONET
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Accessories
Base layers and static overlay vector layers
Bells and Whistles
CRS: EPSG 3413 4326 3031
Search a place from OpenCage Geocoder
Great-circle distance
GIS Calculations (future work)
Draw profile
Analyze polygon
Point val on shown sat layer

Resize/reposition drawn layers
Remove drawn markers or lines