Abstract

Semi-automatic geospatial website creation with Java, JavaScript and XML
Track: Web and Server
Authors: Olmo Zavala-Romero

A Java application that generates web content for displaying geospatial data is developed. This program builds self contained web sites by defining a set of XML files that indicate the layers to be displayed and the servers where they are located. The software is able to communicate with different map servers through the WMS standard and its four-dimensional extension proposed by J.D. Blower. This flexibility allows to show animations from netCDF files, access punctual data through the WFS standard, display plots of vertical sections and vertical profiles, download original data, visualize maps in Google Earth and modify the color palettes and transparency of the data being displayed. This work is being developed at the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS) and is currently used to display temperature, salinity, sea surface height and ocean currents
of the Gulf of Mexico using data from the Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM).