Interactive Meteosat
An educational software application for teaching students on satellite meteorology was developed within the project. Interactive Meteosat (IM) represents a case study in the ESA EO educational website for secondary schools, Eduspace.
ASRC’s task was to prepare IM as a web-based interactive application user friendly for students and teachers across Europe, built entirely with standard compliant free and open source software applications, such as OpenLayers, GeoServer and GDAL.
The application allows users: to observe and to record meteorological observations, to upload them onto Eduspace, to compare them with what they see on the Meteosat satellite imagery and with other observations submitted throughout Europe.
The main functionalities of the application are:
- displaying imagery from Meteosat weather satellite using a Map Viewer and a Geostationary Viewer;
- zooming;
- panning;
- introducing quantitative geotagged data (current conditions, wind direction, wind speed, cloud cover, elevation and temperature)
- displaying GLOBE data.
For more information about IM, please contact us.