Odysseus – A Service for Distributing Dynamic Multi-layered XY Charts on the Internet

Abstract

In the context of environmental observation the visualization of data in charts (e.g. time series plots) plays an important role. Observation data are often visualized as xy charts. In contrast to the ongoing standardization in the web distribution of spatial data and their visualization as maps no standard for distributing xy charts over the internet exists. In this paper a general approach for a service for visualizing observation data as xy charts is presented.