Welcome to Ocean Visuals Documentation

This documentation will give an overview of OV's main user interface, its concepts and features; of the onboard installation and its administration.

Terminology

• AIS - ​Automatic Identification System is used to provide information of nearby (to an Observer) vessel information
• Device - a device represents a physicial grouping of Observation Types e.g. a LIDAR which measures: oil pollution, CDOM, water transparency etc.
• Incident - a collection of Observations where a specified Observation Type is out of the normal range(s) for that specified Observation Type
• Observation - a group of measurements for one or several Observation Types at a specific time and location (latitude, longitude)
• Observation Type - a single measurable entity - an instrument / a sensor - providing a scalar value e.g. temperature, oil pollution, water transparency etc.
• Observer - a vessel or a stationary platform carrying one or several Devices for Observation gathering.

Web UI

At the highest level the Web UI functionality at ​https://web.oceanavisuals.no is divided into 2 groups: anonymous users, public data; authenticated users, enhanced data.

Anonymous users have access to the public data and the aggregated statistics of that data.

Authenticated users have access to additional information regarding:

• Private Observers and their Observations
• Maps with an AIS Layer
• Detailed Incident Reports with AIS history
• Device monitoring and management

Onboard Administration

The Onboard installation combines the main Onboard applications for logging and uploading data to Onshore at ​https://web.oceanvisuals.no with a standalone (locally deployed) version of Onshore services that enable to (re)use the same web based user interface (Web UI) from ​https://web.oceanvisuals.no in offline mode.

The official operating system for the Onboard installation is ​Lubuntu 16.04 LTS. The documenation for Lubuntu can be found at ​https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation

Install Locations