The Ocean Virtual Laboratory (OVL) is a web portal that lets oceanographers
discover various co-located remote sensing ocean
observation covering a region of interest — alongside model outputs and
in-situ measurements. It runs in a browser at https://
The portal is powered by Syntool, the open-source viewer developed by OceanDataLab, and is partly funded by the European Space Agency.
In this chapter¶
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| General overview | A tour of the portal and of the vocabulary used in this chapter. |
| Specific features | The map, timeline, data panel, rendering controls, annotations, transects, hotspots and sharing, feature by feature. |
| Tips and how to | Recipes for common tasks, such as searching and collocating datasets, playing with layers, draw a synoptic chart. |
| Jupyter notebooks examples | Worked examples using data extracted from the portal. |
Asking a question or reporting a bug¶
Open an issue — for questions about using the tools as well as for bugs. When reporting a bug, please say which tool you were using, what you expected, and what happened instead.
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