Bathymetry Data
Canadian Hydrographic Service – Fisheries and Oceans Canada
When creating charts and navigational products, Canadian Hydrographic Service collects a wealth of data that is invaluable for a wide-range of research and studies.
Topographic Data
NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
Flown aboard the space shuttle Endeavour February 11-22, 2000. NASA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) participated in an international project to acquire radar data which were used to create the first near-global set of land elevation.
ETOPO1 Global Relief Model
ETOPO1 is a 1 arc-minute global relief model of Earth’s surface that integrates land topography and ocean bathymetry. It was built from numerous global and regional data sets.
Bathymetry
General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO)
The General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) consists of a range of bathymetric data sets and data products, including gridded bathymetric data sets from an international group of experts.
Tides and Waves
NOAA WAVEWATCHIII
A third generation wave model run four times a day (00Z, 06Z, 12Z, and 18Z). Each run starts with 9-, 6- and 3-hour hindcasts and produces forecasts of every 3 hours from the initial time out to 180 hours (84 hours for the Great Lakes). The NOAA WAVEWATCH III® operational wave model suite consists of a set of five wave models, based on version 2.22 of WAVEWATCH III®
Weather Data
rp5: Wind and Weather Data from Around the World
The website has been designed and supported by Raspisaniye Pogodi Ltd., St. Petersburg, Russia, since 2004. The company has a license from the Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet) that allows creating and maintaining databases in the field of hydrometeorology and related fields. The website provides six-day weather forecasts and information on the actual weather, observed at ground stations. The forecasts are prepared by the Met Office, UK.
3D Imagery
Collada 3D Images
EE allows users to import pre-defined structures for visualization using View3D tool. This allows users to get a better feel for the model domain by displaying significant engineering structures in the model domain. Any COLLADA file can now be imported to 3D View as an overlay file. COLLADA stands for “COLLAborative Design Activity” and is an interchangefile format for interactive 3D applications. It has a .DAE extension (digital asset exchange) add defines an open standard XML schema for exchanging digital assets among various graphics. COLLADA has been adopted by ISO as a publicly available specification, ISO/PAS 17506. Example files can be found at SketchUp website.
Some COLLADA files used by DSI are available here.