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RAPTORscope
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RAPTORscope is a web-based mapping application that allows a user to view real-time oceanographic data. Future research and instrument deployments will be based on real-time data so that assets can be strategically placed to answer specific questions. These high resolution assets, or RAPTOR arrays
(RAPidly Triggered Observation Response) are an idea that developed at the NSF sponsored ORION Workshop. Each RAPTOR array will focus in on a particular part of the ocean. These areas will be identified through
RAPTORscope.
Currently the data products that are available include :
- Satellite Sea Surface Temperature
- Satellite Ocean Color
- Codar Surface Currents (raw, tidal, detided, and 3-day averaged)
- Glider Data (Current location, track, and surface temperature)
RAPTORscope has two versions. Each allows a user to overlay different layers of information in a slightly different way. |
Applet: The applet is a java application that the user downloads to their own computer. Once the application and data layers are downloaded, the user can quickly change aspects of the map without having to send requests to Rutgers. Since you are downloading a java application, java plug-ins are required.
Servlet: The servlet processes all data requests here on a machine at Rutgers. So each change a user makes to the map is sent to Rutgers and a new map is sent back to the user. With each change there is a new request. This version was designed so that users that have secure fire walls, that restrict application downloads, can still have access to
RAPTORscope.
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