Introduction

Timeline

The timeline consists of two concepts:

The currently selected datetime is referred to as the "current datetime". And the currently selected timespan is referred to as the "current timespan".

The user can change both the current datetime and the current timespan.

An animation is just an automatic increment/decrement of the current datetime by a fixed step (controlled by the animation speed) every fixed delay.

Dataset

A temporally and spatially referenced piece of data.

It can be a trajectory (e.g. drifters), an image (e.g. SAR), or a vector field (barbs, arrows, or streamlines) (e.g. surface current).

It must have:

The dataset will be added to the map either:

Product

A collection of datasets that share the same configuration.