Using the Okavango Basin Information System (OBIS)

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Revision as of 09:20, 5 February 2013

The Okavango Basin Information System (OBIS) is a web-based data management and dissemination platform that is being developed within the research project The Future Okavango (TFO) (see also http://www.future-okavango.org). This tutorial aims on giving OBIS users an overview of general features and describes how to use them in a step-by-step fashion.

Software requirements

In order to access and use OBIS, only a current web browser is needed in general. OBIS was particularly tested with recent versions of the Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, and Google Chrome web browsers. As some of the OBIS user interfaces are best displayed on screens with resolutions of 1200x800 pixels and above, web browsers running on smartphones might not be suited.

Tutorial outline

This tutorial is divided into the following parts covering different components and functionalities:

• Getting started: login procedure and user interfaces
• User interface concepts
• Browsing data:
  • Geodata
  • Time series data
  • Study sites and observations
  • Station
  • Scenario
  • Indicator
• Adding and modifying geodata
  • Geodata import
  • Edit maps
• Make use of timeseries data
  • New timeseries
  • Create input files for JAMS
  • Calculate indicators
• User permission management