🎉 Welcome to our First OVL Newsletter!
We’re excited to bring you the latest updates and improvements to our OVL web portal and SEAScope application tools in our quarterly newsletter. We have designed it to help you:
- Be aware of new products onboard on the OVL portal.
- Stay up-to-date on new functionalities and enhancements that make your experience smoother and more productive.
- Inform you about training materials, tutorials, and guides to help you maximize the potential of the OVL tools.
- Build a stronger community by sharing insights, events, and key metrics about this community.
1 - OVL Portal Updates
🌟 New Products Added
📈 Product Updates
- SWOT L3 SSH: Now updated with data up to the end of September 2024 on a dedicated OVL SWOT CalVal portal: https://odl.bzh/tTyfeHf3
🛠️ New Functionalities
- Browser’s back/forward buttons now work seamlessly (e.g., after creating a seashot or clicking on a hotspot).
- Change the color of annotations with ease.
- Select global datasets directly on the map.
🚀 Improvements
- Streamlines’ particle density adjusts better to data resolution, view port, and zoom level.
- Improved scroll handling for Apple devices.
- The "Hide unreachable products" toggle is disabled by default.
- Focus no longer shifts to the "Text" field when selecting a text annotation.
2 - SEAScope: October 2024 Release
The fall SEAScope release includes bug fixes, new functionalities, performance improvements as well as a brand new User manual.
🛠️ New Functionalities
- State Restoration: Timeline’s geographical extent (center and zoom) is saved when SEAScope shuts down and restored at next start.
- Instantaneous granules with identical start and end times are now supported.
- External file browsers and system dialog boxes can now be used.
🚀 Improvements
- "Nearest" Timeline Mode: Redesigned for better intuitiveness.
- Annotation Properties Panel: Enhanced for consistency, especially for image annotations.
- Drawing Tools: Shape editing and invalid geometry detection are now smoother.
- Improved parallel data loading for better performance.
3 - Event: OTC25 Online Training
The first part of ESA ADVANCED TRAINING COURSE ON OCEAN SYNERGY REMOTE SENSING is happening online and is using the OVL tools to help students get the most of satellite data. We had a dedicated session to explore the OVL tool including a practical tour.
📹 Watch the recording here: OVL Tools Training Video
4 - Check Out Our YouTube Channel
We’ve updated our channel with exciting content, including a new playlist for temporal animations.
📊 OVL Portal in numbers as of February 2025
- Total Data Available: about 475 TiB
- Number of Products in catalog: 270
- Unique Visitors : 2 821
