Navigating the InSAR Norway visualization tool

Navigation using mouse and/or keyboard

Click-and-drag to pan around in the map

Click-and-drag with the right mouse button or while holding the Shift key down to tilt and rotate the map

Use the scroll wheel or scroll gesture on your trackpad to zoom

You can also enter free-flight mode. In this mode, the cursor is hidden. Movement is controlled using the keyboard, and look direction controlled by moving the mouse. (The keyboard is also active for movement even without being in free-flight mode.)

Action Key Enter free-flight mode Alt-G Exit free-flight mode Esc or Alt-G Fly in/out W, S Fly left/right A, D Fly up/down Q, E

Navigation using touch

Move the map by dragging with one finger

Zoom by pinching two fingers

Rotate the map by moving two fingers in a circular motion

Tilt the map by moving two fingers up or down

Icon Description Show or hide the toolbar. Shows this window. Shows the mini map window. Sets the direction of the light source to match your current view direction. Shows the legend window. Zooms the map to your current location. Generate a link you can use to share your current view with others.

Shows the current mode. Click to toggle between 3D mode and 2D mode. Mean timeseries for points. Click to draw a polygon around the points of interest. Double-click to close the polygon. The mean timeseries appears in the plot window.

Map layers

The maps tab shows all base layer maps and additional map layers that are available to you.

Icon Description Raise the selected map layer. Lower the selected map layer. Pan and zoom the map to show the selected layer.

Click the layer preview to toggle the layer on and off.

Plot window

To open the plot window, click a point or select a group of points. The plot window will appear once data for the point(s) have been fetched from the server. To plot multiple single points, hold down the Shift-key while clicking each point. (Note that the summary display above the plot and the data table will only contain data from the last point clicked.)

Hover the cursor over points in the plot to show their value.

Click-and-drag to move the plot.

Zoom the plot by scrolling in or out.

Hold down the Shift-key while zooming to lock zoom to the Y-axis.

Hold down either of the Command, Control or Alt keys to lock the X-axis while zooming.

You can also toggle connecting lines between each datapoint, points, select a curve to fit to the data and set a fixed limit on the Y axis from the popups at the bottom of the plot. Click the View Data button to show raw data for the last selected point. The plot shown can be exported as an SVG.

Miscellaneous tips and tricks