Iowa Environmental Mesonet
Iowa State University Department of Agronomy
IEM Time Machine
Posted On: 2009-10-23 08:15 AM Author: Daryl Herzmann Views: 204Link: http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/timemachine/
IEM Time Machine is a fancy new way to rapidly view current and historical images generated by the IEM. The application presents a menu listing of various products and once selected, you can use buttons and sliders to rapidly transverse the archive of data. At every point along the way, the URL updates allowing you to bookmark or share the link with others to view. The initial feedback I have gotten on this application has been tremendously positive, so I hope you like it as well.
One of the neat features is that this application can utilize images stored on remote servers as well (given that they logically store their images in a timestamp based manner). The application includes a few NWS DIFAX archived products at Colorado State.
Let me know what you think about this and also if you have any favorite web archives you would like added to the app. I'll be adding some more that I know about soon.
This application is exactly what I envisioned doing back when I started the IEM in 2001, too bad it took 8 years to generate this :)