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EUDAT Conference, Porto, 22-25 January 2018
Ocean Data View (ODV) software
and the cloud
Sebastian Mieruch and Reiner Schlitzer
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Ocean Data View (ODV)
● Developed by Reiner Schlitzer (AWI)
● Approx. 3,000 active users (>60,000 registrations)
● Oceanographic and other geo-referenced data
● Interactive exploration, analysis and visualisation
● Profiles, time series, trajectories, other sequence data
● Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix
● https://odv.awi.de
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Quality Control
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Sections
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Maps
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Scatter plots
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webODV (Ocean Data View -- online)
● Provide typical ODV functionality over the Internet
● Desktop like user experience
● Centrally maintained datasets
● Services
○ Data extraction
○ Quality control
○ Visualization
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webODV -> VRE -> EUDAT infrastructure
webODV
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webODV - Concept
Backend
● HTTPS (TLS)
● Single Sign On
● WebDAV
secure
WebSockets
Frontend
● Responsive Web Design
● Touch-screen
● Modular
Client
Services
Data
extraction
Quality
control
Visualiza-
tion
EUDAT Server
ODV
ODV
ODV
Data
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Data extraction at https://webodv.awi.de (in production)
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Quality control (prototype)
Browser Server
WebSockets
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Conclusions
● Concept works
● Desktop like user experience
● Fast, powerful, stable and efficient
● Scalable and modular
Next steps
● Implemention into the VRE in close collaboration with users
and EUDAT partners
● Development of visualization services
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Back Up Slides
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Data extraction at https://webodv.awi.de
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Data extraction at https://webodv.awi.de
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Data extraction at https://webodv.awi.de
sdn-userdesk@seadatanet.org – www.seadatanet.org
Quality control (prototype)
Browser Server
WebSockets

SeaDataCloud - Ocean Data View software and the cloud