PlanetServer 101: basics
Planetserver’s stable web client (WebGUI) basic functionalities are listed and briefly explained below
Main Interface
The main interface is a pan & zoom full screen map with an upper toolbar
Toolbar (right portion), containing several buttons (see below)
Buttons
The first buttons that might provide info and help are:
@ - provides access to further sources of information (including this blog)
? – opens the tutorial PDF
Once a user pans over an area and selects a certain footprint (orange = unselected, blue = selected), a dialog for choosing the spectral range appears.
After that the main analysis set of widgets is visualized:
Analytical and query dialogs are then available
Dialogs/widgets
Each dialog/widget will have its own (or combined) in-depth blog post describing functionalities.
Table of Contents
It gives access to the selected data granule and each of its bands, including grayscale, RGB combinations
Diagrams
Provide spectral graphing capabilities, histogram, spectral library visualisation, etc.
Console
It allows spectral calculations, band queries, and other functions.
More info
For more info, please consult the PlanetServer PDF tutorial.
Also, a screencast (and eventual more to come will be added) is available from the EarthServer Vimeo page.