Category Archives: Voyager News
Cloud Global Imagery
Posted July 14, 2015Voyager’s “remote sensing” > “satellite data” category now provides global cloud imagery. Previously, Voyager’s cloud overlays pulled from NOAA nowCOAST, which did not extend west or south of Hawaiʻi....
Kwajalein Wave Run-Up Forecast
Posted June 30, 2015Voyager now includes a new wave run-up forecast for Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). Developed by Martin Guiles, Doug Luther, and Mark Merrifield of...
Digital Elevation Models (DEMs)
Posted June 18, 2015Voyager screenshot of USGS DEM for Tutuila, American Samoa with black 100-m elevation contour: Voyager now provides access to numerous land surface digital elevation models (DEMs), which can be...
HFR Surface Currents: Hilo Bay
Posted June 10, 2015PacIOOS recently deployed new high-frequency radio (HFR) antenna arrays to estimate surface currents in and around Hilo Bay on the windward (Eastern) coast of Hawaiʻi Island (Big Island), extending...
Coastlines Added To Voyager
Posted March 04, 2015When overlaying certain maps in Voyager—especially those overlapping land like wind, air temperature, Doppler radar, etc.—the underlying basemaps from Google Maps can become hidden beneath them. While Voyager provides...
Underwater Cables Layer Expanded
Posted March 03, 2015To support coastal and ocean planning, Voyager maps some of the known submarine cables. This can be found in Voyager’s seafloor super-category filed under seafloor infrastructure where it is...
Voyager Performance Tuning
Posted February 27, 2015Owing to various Web performance tuning strategies, Voyager’s initial page load is now three times faster. We recently investigated this issue after several users began reporting sluggish page loads...
Voyager Usability Improvements
Posted January 26, 2015Based on user feedback, we have implemented several improvements to Voyager’s user interface (UI) design. We occasionally hear that the number of configurable options in some of Voyager’s map...
Additional Satellite Datasets
Posted January 12, 2015Voyager’s “remote sensing” > “satellite data” category now contains a few additional datasets. Voyager continues to provide daily, weekly, and monthly Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) global sea...
ALOHA Cabled Observatory (ACO): Live Video Feed
Posted January 06, 2015The University of Hawaiʻi’s ALOHA Cabled Observatory (ACO) is located 100 km (62 mi) north of the island of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi in the North Pacific Ocean, approximately 1.2 km...
