Servir-Viz know our earth
Servir-Viz is not a satellite; it is earth observation software. Servir-Viz uses commercial and international satellites to get earth images. These images are useful for earth observation. These satellite images contain data and satellite imagery. This satellite imagery is then combines with ground observations
The website of Servir-Viz is divided into four parts. User can find general description of Servir-Viz on the “about” link. This is home page of Servir-Viz and it contains general information about Servir-Viz. The directory list of Servir-Viz contain name of Servir-Viz‘s developers. The “library” option of Servir-Viz contains documentation for workshops and conferences. The gallery option of Servir-Viz contains images of multiple locations.
Servir-Viz uses global earth observation system, which brings satellite images for Servir-Viz. It has real time image viewer, which uses web-browser for viewing, animating and downloading various real time images of Servir-Viz. The data of Servir-Viz is distributed and it uses satellite for images. These images are near real time and it gives three-dimensional pictures of the earth. The data portal of Servir-Viz is another feature of Servir-Viz; this is an online data product of Servir-Viz, which is used for image search system.
Servir-Viz can be used for social benefit. It offers nine products that can be used for social benefit such as human health, water, ecology, disasters, oceans, energy, weather, climate, agriculture and energy. These social benefits of Servir-Viz are based on data product provided by Servir-Viz.
These social benefits have helped disaster managers to get detailed weather and hazard information. The real time image viewer of Servir-Viz is based on GEOSS theme. The GEOSS theme of Servir-Viz is used to pick image products such as GOES-12 weather satellite, weather forecasts and ½-hour SATCAST storm-cloud analysis.
The real-time images of Servir-Viz are used for weather forecasting. Weather forecasters can open Servir-Viz-viz and use the GEOSS-DSS viewer to determine real time 24-hour weather forecast. This is important to determine where these catastrophe events may occur during the next time.
Weather forecasters can use Servir-Viz data portal to select GEOSS disaster option. This option is available on the right pane of the Servir-Viz data portal. It has links to get landslide and historical floods events. It also gives statistics on various events. User can download these statistics for further analysis.
The data of Servir-Viz is not located in one place, but distributed among Servir-Viz’s participants, partners and contributors. Servir-Viz‘s data is available for all users. It contains data from all locations. Most of Servir-Viz‘s data is available in downloadable format. These satellite data of Servir-Viz is based on GIS layer of Servir-Viz. Servir-Viz also contains links to two other applications such as Mesostor and Servir-Viz data portal.
The data portal of Servir-Viz is an online product of Servir-Viz. It also contains metadata about all Servir-Viz‘s product. Users can find these images by using keywords. They can perform advance searches by entering more information and thus, they can view more detail geographical information. This data portal of Servir-Viz also contains a web map viewer, which is useful to select online datasets.
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