SOS Explorer1.2.4 - App Store

SOS Explorer (SOSx) Mobile is a free, flat screen mobile app version of the popular NOAA Science On a Sphere (SOS). This revolutionary software takes SOS datasets, usually only seen on a 6-foot sphere in large museum spaces, and makes them accessible, portable, and interactive anywhere. SOSx Mobile can immerse the user in animated images such as Saturn’s rings, atmospheric storms, climate change, and ocean temperatures to help explain sometimes complex environmental processes in a way that is intuitive, captivating, interactive, and entertaining. A desktop version, called SOS Explorer, is also available.

Thank you for using SOS Explorer (SOSx) Mobile. We are committed to continually improving our software and providing you with an engaging and educational experience. We hope you enjoy the new features and enhancements in version 1.2! Please continue to share your feedback with us as we work on improvements. We appreciate your patience and support.

Features include:

. Streaming, high-resolution datasets
. Educational videos
. User-guided tours
. Analysis tools
. 100+ datasets
. Global and flat map views

Sample datasets:

. Recent Hurricane Seasons
. Bird Migration
. Earthquake Activity
. Snow and Ice
. Ocean Currents
. Historical Tsunamis
. Facebook Friendships
. Air Traffic
. Planets of the Solar System
. Climate Change Models
. 360 Underwater Imagery
. Narrated Movies
. ...and so much more!

Version History Real-time (RT) datasets on mobile are back! We fixed two issues that prevented us from publishing RT data that are now fixed. 1.2.4 Apr 9 In SOS Explorer, a bug was found,
Where Chinese texts were not sound.
Simplified, traditional, in a mix,
Characters missing, in a fix.
Now corrected, clarity abounds! 1.2.2 12/20/2023 Playback Slider Issue (iOS): Resolved an issue on iOS devices where the playback slider didn’t accurately scroll through time while viewing data sets.
UI Text Issue: Rectified a situation where loading country labels from the overlay window resulted in the disappearance of UI text.
Orbit Camera:: The “auto rotate” function has been renamed to “orbit” to accurately represent the camera’s movement orbiting the Earth.
Analysis Window: Enhanced user experience; the analysis window now seamlessly transitions between navigating the sphere and tool interactions.
Tools Menu Toggle: Refinement to the toggle menu behavior to ensure consistency with other UI elements. 1.2.1 09/05/2023 • Upgrade to Unity 2021.3: Experience improved performance and visual fidelity thanks to the latest version of the Unity engine.
• Initial support for WMTS (Web Map Tile Service) data sets: Enjoy more efficient loading and visualization of high resolution data sets.
• Expanded language support: We have added support for Spanish and Chinese languages, making our application more accessible to users worldwide.
• Automatic rotation of the globe and toggle for legends: Enhance your interaction with better controls of how information is presented on the screen.
• Improved rendering for real-time satellite positions: Get a more accurate and visually pleasing representation of satellite data.
• New video playback library: Enjoy a smoother video playback experience with AVPro 2.0.
• Enhancements to analysis tools: Delve deeper into datasets with our improved and more accurate analysis tools.
• Improved navigation controls: Explore the world more easily with our refined navigation controls in both globe and map modes.
• Transition to UnityWebRequest for content downloading: Experience more efficient and reliable content delivery.
• Updated UI for different device display safe zones: We've improved our user interface to respect the display safe zones for various devices.

Known Issues

• Tour content display: Tour content may appear stretched on certain devices due to variations in screen aspect ratios.
• Help screen timing: On slower devices, the help screen may appear prematurely.
• Visual artifacts when unloading data sets: Users may notice temporary visual artifacts when unloading data sets.
• Infinite scrolling in map view: Infinite horizontal scrolling is currently disabled in map view.
• Average area analysis tool: This is currently disabled while we work on an improved UI experience. 1.2 06/09/2023 Improved reliability loading datasets and viewing abstracts and summaries on the web. 1.11 04/14/2021 Now with performance improvements to dataset management! Measure distances on other celestial bodies and tilt the globe with three fingers. 1.1 09/22/2019 1.0 08/01/2019