0.8.3 - June 2, 2105

Updates

• Updated for Earthdata 3.0

Known Issues

• Internet Explorer 8 and below is not supported.
• Internet Explorer 9 has difficulties rendering the user interface under certain circumstances, though should remain usable.
• Custom color palettes are not supported on Internet Explorer or on Safari 5 and earlier.
• Custom color palettes cannot be used in image download.
• On iOS, layers cannot be reordered
• WMS based layers (Population Density and Global Labels) can no longer be displayed properly in the older arctic projection (EPSG:3995).
• A mixed content warning may be displayed when using layers from external servers not using https.

0.8.2 - May 21, 2015

New Features

• Coordinate display can now be toggled between decimal degrees and degrees, minutes, and seconds.
• Coordinates are now displayed in the image download crop window.
• Layers provided by the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) are now available through image download.

0.8.1 - April 27, 2015

Updates

• The ends of the timeline now have some additional padding.
• When applying a color palette threshold, the color range can now be clamped or squashed.
• Animated zoom effect disabled when using Firefox.
• Graticule layer in the geographic projection can now have its visiblity toggled.
• Parenthetical number of layers now updated when swtiching projections.

0.8.0 - March 11, 2015

Updates

• Map renderer upgraded to OpenLayers 3.
• AMSR-E layers are now available in data download.
• Image download now works on devices that are exactly 720 pixels in width.

0.7.2 - February 6, 2015

Updates

• In the time slider, changed the horizontal scroll direction and a zoom is no longer triggered when panning.

0.7.1 - January 8, 2015

New Features

• Added six new GPM layers.

Updates

• Application should no longer randomly crash on iOS.
• Timeline can scroll when the pick is at the edges.
• Easier to select the current date when timeline is zoomed out to years.
• Map centers properly on mobile devices.
• Timeline expands if collapsed during the tour.
• Tabs ignore arrow keys when focused.
• A blank tab or window no longer shows up when the feedback button is a mailto link
• Font size in data download increased.
• Coordinate display is now in degrees, minutes, and seconds in latitude and longitude order.
• Earthdata feedback module removed until permalink issues can be resolved.

0.7.0 - December 10, 2014

New Features

• New timeline interface to explore imagery over a larger time span
  • Selected day can be changed by clicking on the timeline or dragging the selection marker.
  • Temporal area of interest can be changed to weeks, months, years, or decades.
  • Easily go to the next or previous day using buttons on the interface or the arrows on the keyboard. Hold down to continuously change the current day.
  • A bar on the timeline indicates the temporal ranges of the layers being shown on the map.
  • A specific date can be typed into the text boxes on the left side of the timeline.
• The opacity for each layer can now be adjusted.
• Hovering over color legends now displays data values for that color.
• The maximum and minimum values can now be adjusted for overlays with color legends.
• In image download, additional files can now be downloaded to assist in geo-referencing the image in GIS applications.

Updates

• Image download
  • Image artifacts no longer appear in base layers for GeoTIFF or PNG files.
  • A time parameter is now embedded into downloaded KMZ files to allow playback of images over time in Google Earth.
  • Base layers that are completely obscured by other base layers are no longer visible.
• The "data not available" message is no longer incorrectly shown when crossing certain month boundaries.
• The permalink format has been updated. Old permalinks are still supported.
• Missing color legends for certain layers have been added.
• User feedback is now submitted through an online form rather than direct email.
• Various bugfixes and user interface updates.

0.6.9 - September 19, 2014

New Features

• Added five new AMSR-E cryosphere layers.

Known Issues

• Internet Explorer 8 and below is not supported.
• Internet Explorer 9 has difficulties rendering the user interface under certain circumstances, though should remain usable.
• Custom color palettes are not supported on Internet Explorer or on Safari 5 and earlier.
• Custom color palettes cannot be used in image download.
• On iOS, layers cannot be reordered
• WMS based layers (Population Density and Global Labels) can no longer be displayed properly in the older arctic projection (EPSG:3995).
• A mixed content warning may be displayed when using layers from external servers not using https.
• Layers with imagery before the year 2000 cannot be displayed.

0.6.8 - August 28, 2014

New Features

• Added three Blue Marble Next Generation layers.
• Added three new reference map layers based off of data from OpenStreetMap and Natural Earth.

Updates

• The start date for the MODIS Fire layers has been corrected.

Known Issues

• Internet Explorer 8 and below is not supported.
• Internet Explorer 9 has difficulties rendering the user interface under certain circumstances, though should remain usable.
• Custom color palettes are not supported on Internet Explorer or on Safari 5 and earlier.
• Custom color palettes cannot be used in image download.
• On iOS, layers cannot be reordered
• WMS based layers (Population Density and Global Labels) can no longer be displayed properly in the older arctic projection (EPSG:3995).
• A mixed content warning may be displayed when using layers from external servers not using https.
• Layers with imagery before the year 2000 cannot be displayed.

0.6.7 - June 6, 2014

Updates

• Fixed the issue where image download would sometimes select the wrong day.