BirdSim - Revision history

Stacy shinneman: /* Introduction */

2021-01-21T11:21:44Z

‎Introduction

Stacy shinneman: /* Meteorological data */

2018-02-20T11:08:04Z

‎Meteorological data

Stacy shinneman: /* BirdSim tab */

2018-02-20T11:07:46Z

‎BirdSim tab

Stacy shinneman: /* Environment tab */

2018-02-20T11:07:03Z

‎Environment tab

Stacy shinneman: /* Environment tab */

2018-02-20T11:02:54Z

‎Environment tab

Stacy shinneman: /* Other Tabs */

2018-02-20T11:02:24Z

‎Other Tabs

Tijs: /* Known problems/Troubleshooting */

2013-12-06T18:44:50Z

‎Known problems/Troubleshooting

Tijs: /* Security */

2013-12-06T18:44:23Z

‎Security

Tijs: /* Control Panel */

2013-12-06T18:43:45Z

‎Control Panel

Tijs: /* Introduction */

2013-12-06T18:09:44Z

‎Introduction

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 * To dynamically link (meteorological) data to GPS-data.
-BirdSim can be found on https://birvis.e-ecology.sara.nl/birdsim
+'''''This service is currently not available.'''''
 ===Requirements===

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 ==== Meteorological data ====
 [[Image:ScreenShotMeteo.png|thumb|right|500px|Wind, temperature and precipitation data in BirdView]]
-The FlySafe database contains the weather prediction data acquired from ECMWF. The meteorological data goes back as far as 01-01-2005, although only wind vector is available for that particular period.
+The e-Ecology database contains the weather prediction data acquired from ECMWF. The meteorological data goes back as far as 01-01-2005, although only wind vector is available for that particular period.
 ECMWF data  properties:

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 [[image:birdsimControl1.png|thumb|right|260px|Screenshot of the BirdSim Control interface]]
-In the BirdSim tab you can find the controls for querying data from the GPS database on the FlySafe server
+In the BirdSim tab you can find the controls for querying data from the GPS e-Ecology database.
 Here we will go over each field, and explain what this does:

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 [[image:birdsimControl2.png|thumb|right|260px|Screenshot of the BirdSim Environment Control interface]]
-''For the Environment tab to be visible, you do need ECMWF access on the UvA-Bits database. If you do not have this, environment tab wont be visible.''
+''For the Environment tab to be visible, you do need ECMWF access on the UvA-Bits database. If you do not have this, environment tab won't be visible.''
 The meteorological data in BirdSim is dynamically queried, based on two factor:

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 The meteorological data in BirdSim is dynamically queried, based on two factor:
 * The viewpoint (both zoom level and position)
-* The current time in the Google Earth Timeslider.
+* The current time in the Google Earth Timeslider
 If the timeslider is giving a single timestamp, this will be used for querying the weather data. If the Timeslider is expanded to a timerange, the '''end''' is used to query the data.

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 === Other Tabs ===
-There are a few other tabs, such as "Find Location", "Google Earth Layers" and "Options". These control some of the Google Earth plugin basic behaviors and properties, and are not documented here
+There are a few other tabs, such as "Find Location", "Google Earth Layers" and "Options". These control some of the Google Earth plugin basic behaviors and properties, and are not documented here.
 == Security ==

← Older revision		Revision as of 18:44, 6 December 2013
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	== Known problems/Troubleshooting ==		== Known problems/Troubleshooting ==

−	~~None as of 21~~-3-~~2011~~	+	Updated 6-12-2013
		+
		+	Known issues:
		+	* Tide Level option in Wadden data is disabled due to server strain
		+	* Wadden data server is offline

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 == Security ==
-The BirdSim application itself runs on the https protocol, and requires a FlySafe server user account to access.
+The BirdSim application itself runs on the https protocol, and requires a UvA-bits user account to access.
 The access to different birds is limited per account. You can only look at data that you have access to.

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 * Device Id: This is the serial number of the bird you want to look at. Note that only the device that you have access to are visible.
 * Start date/time and End date/time: Here your set the timespan of the data you want to see. The time is in UTC
-* Tour Threshold: Measurement points with an average speed (in m/s) under the threshold are grouped together. This option is to clean up the bird tours.
+* Tour Threshold: Measurement points with an average speed (in m/s) under the threshold are grouped together. This option is to clean up the bird tracks and aggregate spots where they were not travelling.
 * Tour Speed Multiplier: The default tour speed is the same as the speed of the measurements. Since this can be extremely slow on migration flights, the default speed can be modified. Note that the touring interface also has buttons to speed up the tour, this option is just an alternative.
 * Points checkbox: Adds the measurements to the GPS track/tour as icons.
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 The reason for these buttons is to have a finer control over the timeslider of Google Earth. The default speed of the Time Slider makes it play very fast, making a migration of a month finish in 10 seconds. By setting the Time rate to for example 3600, the timeslider will advance an hour each second. To update the speed after filling in a new speed, press the play button again.
-=== Weather tab ===
+=== Environment tab ===
-[[image:birdsimControl2.png|thumb|right|260px|Screenshot of the BirdSim Weather Control interface]]
+[[image:birdsimControl2.png|thumb|right|260px|Screenshot of the BirdSim Environment Control interface]]
-''For the Weather tab to be visible, you do need ECMWF access on the FlySafe database. If you do not have this, the weather tab wont be visible.''
+''For the Environment tab to be visible, you do need ECMWF access on the UvA-Bits database. If you do not have this, environment tab wont be visible.''
 The meteorological data in BirdSim is dynamically queried, based on two factor:
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 The precision of the plot is 0.5 mm per color level.
 ===KML Documents ===
-In this tab, you can either add kml/kmz files from somewhere on the web, or upload a local kml/KMZ file.
+The KML document panel contains the interface to add custom data to BirdView, in the form of KML/KMZ files. These files can be located either on your local machine, in which case you upload them, or they can be retrieved directly form an online location.
-The second option '''only''' works in firefox at the moment, due to use of a Firefox specific library.
 === Other Tabs ===
 There are a few other tabs, such as "Find Location", "Google Earth Layers" and "Options". These control some of the Google Earth plugin basic behaviors and properties, and are not documented here
 == Security ==

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 == Introduction ==
-BirdSim is an interactive web-browser embedded application for interactively looking at GPS tracks, from both top-down view and from Birds-eye view. It is based on the [[BirdView]] application, and as such has some similarities. However, it contains some improvements, allowing for new features such as Touring and location/time dependent (meteorological) data.
+BirdSim is an interactive web-browser embedded application for interactively looking at GPS tracks, from both top-down view and from Birds-eye view. It is based on the [[BirdView]] application, and as such has some similarities. However, it contains some adjustments and additions, allowing for new features such as Touring and location/time dependent (meteorological) data.
 BirdSim has two main goals:
-* To enable looking at GPS tracks from a birds perspective
+* To enable looking at GPS tracks from a birds perspective.
-* To dynamically link (meteorological) data to GPS-data. This
+* To dynamically link (meteorological) data to GPS-data.
 BirdSim can be found on https://birvis.e-ecology.sara.nl/birdsim
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 To be able to use BirdSim, you need to fulfill a couple of requirements. Most of these requirements are usually already fulfilled, or in case of installing Google Earth browser plugin, very easy.
-* You need to run either Microsoft Windows or Maxc OS X 10.4+ as operating system.
+* You need to run either Microsoft Windows (XP  or later) or Maxc OS X 10.4+ as operating system.
-* You need to have a compatible web browser. Internet explorer and Firefox are known to be compatible, but Firefox is recommended since it provides most functionality.
+* You need to have a compatible web browser. Internet explorer, Google Chrome and Firefox are known to be compatible, but Firefox is recommended since it provides additional functionality such as opening local kmz/kml files.
-* You need to have the Google Earth plugin installed. This can be done very simply provided you have administrator rights.
+* You need to have the Google Earth plugin installed. This can be done very simply provided you have administrator rights. It will query you to install the first time you open
-* You need to have correct Video Drivers installed. If not, BirdSim might be slow or even crash.
+* To retrieve data, you need to be logged in with your UvA-Bit password. See [[#Security]] for more details.
-We recommend Firefox as browser: While other browser will work too, only Firefox support loading of local KMZ files.
+We recommend Firefox as browser: While other browser will work too, only Firefox support loading of local KMZ/KML files.
 == Control Panel ==