Servir Viz’s atibilty
Servir Viz is nothing but a customized version of World Wind that is distributed freely. Servir Viz is web enabled, open source 3D exploration tool. Servir Viz was developed to create a systematic visualization framework for various geospatial data resources that are available to Servir project. The software provides it user’s custom tools that are newly developed. The software has a specialized toolbar, which provides various shortcuts to existing tools.
An important feature of Servir Viz is that it can visualize real time satellite imagery, GIS data layers, maps and any other Servir product that is relevant Mesoamerica region. It does this by using World Wind visualization engine and also base mapping layers. You will find that main users of this software are from 7 countries of Mesoamerica. Other people who frequently make use of Servir Viz include decision makers, scientists, educators and of course general public.
The software also enhances Servir project infrastructure by giving access to various data products of NASA GEOSS.A very useful feature of Servir Viz is that it can be easily toggled between Spanish and English to support a variety of users. The development still continues in order to support new user requirements and data.
Servir Viz's contribution to disaster response has been phenomenal. It has been able to detect landslides, preventing further loss of life. Servir Viz is a joint venture that is made between NASA, United States Agency for the international development, Central America’s commission for environment and development, World Bank and other partners.
The software operates in the following way. It gathers useful data from constellation of polar orbiting and geosynchronous satellites that are operated by NOAA and NASA. After processing, the gathered data is integrated with the ground-based observations and is then transmitted to Servir Viz's website giving real time images of weather around Mesoamerica.
You can easily download this program from official website of Servir. The program will only take 60 megabytes of available space. Therefore, there is no need for your computer to have a large disk space in order to install this software. The program will allow you to superimpose land and weather related data over the maps of central and North America. Servir Viz software can be effectively used to pinpoint landslide and flood danger zones. If you want, you can also browse through earthquake and volcano data provided by Geological survey.
In fact, local channels of Servir Viz make use of Servir Viz for displaying forecasts of current ecological and weather conditions. The information available in Servir Viz is presented in a very friendly manner. That is why Servir Viz has become an important decision support system for the Central American leaders. The crucial questions that it can answer are “What will open tomorrow? What areas should evacuate? What will happen next?
Many are using this earth exploration tool to deal with extreme events. It is very important that people especially the government representatives should know how to use this useful environmental visualization data. The best part about this software is that it is active and is available to anyone.
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