The EDITO MyOcean Viewer is a powerful tool where you can not only visualize but also download marine data.

On September 10, we introduced numerous new improvements related to authentication, user data import, visualization and many other features.

Without further ado, let's take a look at what's new! 😃

The authentication system has been updated in this latest version!

Clicking on Log in from Settings > User > Session automatically opens a pop-up window, where you can enter your credentials without leaving the application or losing your current context.

From this same pop-up, you can also Register if you don't have an account yet, or use the Forgot Password? option to reset it:

On mobile devices, the authentication form opens in a new tab instead of a pop-up. This tab closes automatically once you are logged in, and the original Data Portal tab stays open so you keep your full context.

You can now sign in through federated identity providers, such as Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (CDSE), in addition to your Copernicus Marine credentials. You can access it while choosing Continue with your Copernicus Marine account.

Single Sign-On (SSO) is also available: once you sign in to MyOcean, you are automatically signed in to other Copernicus Marine applications. Signing off works the same way, across all applications at once.

Here is how each of these actions now works:

In all three cases, you will be signed in at the end of the process and can continue working in the Data Portal right where you left off.
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The catalogue in the EDITO viewer has a new section, AI Gallery, which offers a growing selection of datasets created with various AI models.

The AI Gallery is a new Mercator Ocean service powered by EDITO that showcases all next-generation oceanographic systems developed by the Digital Twin Ocean community.

The first routine-production systems in the AI Gallery include: GLONET daily forecasts, XiHe daily forecasts, WenHai daily forecasts, LangYa daily forecasts, GLONET2-Global, GLONET2-IBI daily forecasts, GLONET HR daily forecasts (GLO36) and Black Sea BGC daily forecasts. More systems will join later.

You can now import data directly from the Personal Catalogue section of the standalone or embedded catalogue. Click on Upload to open the upload panel, then drag and drop or select your own file.

This is in addition to the existing Upload tool, available in the control block:

Progress information is now displayed during upload, including the stages "Uploading file...", "Preprocessing...", and "Converting to ARCO...".

A more comprehensive dataset validation has also been implemented. It provides actionable errors directly to the user:

This version introduces a proof of concept for a new 3D visualisation engine, available as an alternative to the existing 2D projections (Equatorial, North Polar, and South Polar).
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To enable it, open the Map tab under Settings and choose 3D globe from the Projection dropdown.

The 3D Viewer behaves similarly to the 2D projections: drag the map to pan to a different location, and use the mouse wheel to zoom in or out.

To create point, line, and polygon geometries, and explore data with graphs, use the same tools as in 2D. Lines can be created either by dragging (simple lines) or by clicking on multiple locations (polylines):

You can also group geometries by dragging their pinboxes together. In this example, we are comparing the chlorophyll-a time series for point A and the average time series for polygon C:

Date and depth can now be entered manually, instead of dragging the cursor along the time or depth bar.

On the time bar, clicking on the current date opens a calendar. A day can be selected, the desired time can be entered, and the checkmark confirms the change (or the cross cancels it).

On the depth bar, clicking on the current depth value opens an editable field. The desired depth can be typed in, preceded by a "-" sign, then confirmed with the checkmark (or cancelled with the cross).

Layers corresponding to a climatological variable are now automatically detected, supporting both Month-of-Year (MoY) and Day-of-Year (DoY) climatologies. The selected month or day is shown in the legend, and the climatology baseline can be revealed by hovering over the information button.

Since climatology data can be used as a reference for any time step selected by the user, the temporal coverage of the variable is no longer shown in the time input.

Graphs no longer show yearly labels for climatology data, since these values represent a recurring seasonal pattern rather than a specific year.

The time axis can be aligned across multiple time series related to the same geometry, making it easy to compare in-situ observations with a MyOcean dataset.

To align graphs, select Align time ranges from the graph menu, then choose a graph as the reference. The time axes are aligned automatically, making comparisons easier.

The same method applies to align depth (or elevation) ranges across graphs, using Align depth ranges from the graph menu.

The Settings tool is organized into multiple tabs. The Graphs tab lets you configure default display options, such as showing large graphs or additional statistics, as well as which graphs should be added automatically to new geometries, for each geometry type (points, lines, or areas).

For example, you can choose to automatically add only time series graphs to new point geometries.
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The About section is organized into several tabs:

The Changelog tab is illustrated below. Each entry lists the changes introduced in a given release, with the option to display more details.

We hope that you will love these new features as much as we do! 😊

We are user-driven and, as we have done for this new version of EDITO MyOcean Viewer, we always take users' feedback into account to improve our tools. So please feel free to contact us through a chat session available in the bottom right corner of the page.
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