Newsline from EDINA
July 2004: Volume 9, Issue 2
by Tim Riley
EDINA recently launched the Web Map Viewer service - providing visualisation of global satellite data from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The Web Map Viewer is one result of EDINA's investment in interoperability standards development which offers access to new data.
This free service accesses and displays Landsat 5 and 7 imagery published through an Open GIS Consortium (OGC) compliant web map server at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California. In due course, EDINA plans to provide further Viewers that link to other servers around the world.
The Web Map Viewer includes on-line help describing how to use the application and descriptions of the datasets available.