Web-Based Visualization of Observation Data
Enabling exploration, analysis and visualization of sensor web data
The 52°North Helgoland Sensor Web Viewer is a lightweight web application that enables the exploration, visualization, and analysis of Sensor Web data in various fields of use, e.g., hydrology, meteorology, environmental monitoring.
It enables users to:
- Explore stations or mobile sensor platforms in a map
- Select time series data via a list selection
- Visualize and navigate through time series data, trajectory data, profile measurements
- Create favorites of selected time series
- Export visualized data as CSV files.
The Helgoland Sensor Web Viewer can connect to different Sensor Web endpoints (via the 52°North Helgoland API). These endpoints provide a thin access layer to sensor data (e.g., offered by SOS servers’ databases) via a RESTful Web binding with different output formats. In addition to the Sensor Web endpoints, the Viewer can also connect to different OGC SensorThings APIs.
Our Sensor Web Viewer is based on the Helgoland Toolbox. It integrates the different toolbox modules into a viewing application that can be easily customized according to the requirements of specific users.
Benefits
- Lightweight, Web-based visualization of observation data
- Exploration of Sensor Web data sources (SOS, SensorThings API)
- Support of different types of observation data (time series, trajectories, profiles)
- Data download (CSV)
Fields of Application
Hydrology, air quality, marine sciences, environmental monitoring
Project References
- Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), Germany
- Wupperverband, Germany
- SeaDataCloud
- WaCoDiS
- MuDak-WRM