Merge pull request #57 from axiom-data-science/add-release-2.16

Add combined release notes for versions 2.15 and 2.16

- credit for the content: Karina and Iwen

Author: honzaflash

_portal-updates/2024-02-27-v2.16-release-notes.md

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+title: Version 2.15 & 2.16
+published: true
+layout: post
+---
+
+#### Release Summary
+
+This version implements updates to the version 2.14 and new user-requested features, including enhancements to improve the performance of real-time webcam services and gridded data, and additional features to improve the user map experience through color bar and coordinate system management.
+
+
+#### New Features
+
+* Data views updates:
+    * Individual data views can now be shared. The link to add a data view adds it to a user’s collection
+    * New data management page under settings. Can be accessed from the bottom of the header data view menu and from settings dropdown
+    * Default portal data views are visually differentiated from user data views
+* Improvements to sensor dashboards: <a href="https://portal.aoos.org/?ls=EdvwTqNz#dashboards/sensors/6273456f-0a01-47f5-94d7-91877ca08e92/tides?selected=15431">AOOS Marine Weather Dashboard</a>
+
+<div style="display: flex; max-width: 100%">
+    <img src="/assets/images/release_notes/v2.16_1.png" style="max-width: 50%" class="img-responsive" width="300"/>
+    <img src="/assets/images/release_notes/v2.16_2.png" style="max-width: 50%" class="img-responsive" width="300"/>
+</div>
+*New high/low tables added to tide visualizations.*
+
+* AOOS Glider Ecometrics Dashboards: 
+    * AOOS Glider Ecometrics Dashboards displaying comparisons of real-time glider observations to World Ocean Atlas climatology (<a href="https://portal.aoos.org/?ls=r1QoVxsV#platform/940ebda6-4c42-559a-b433-f35b267366e5/v2?tab=dashboard&dash=complex">link</a>)
+
+<img src="/assets/images/release_notes/v2.16_3.png" class="img-responsive" width="600"/>
+*Glider Ecometrics Dashboards.*
+
+* Manifest of all data assets are accessible for each Axiom-supported portal: 
+    * AOOS data portal: <a href="https://portal.aoos.org/#manifest">Ocean Data Explorer</a>
+    * SECOORA data portal: <a href="https://portal.secoora.org/#manifest/">SECOORA Data Portal</a>
+    * CalOOS data portal: <a href="https://data.caloos.org/#manifest">California Ocean Observing Systems Data Portal</a>
+* Switched to Google Analytics 4 (GA4): 
+    * GA4 is the next generation of Analytics which collects event-based data from websites and applications.
+* Enhancements to the webcam service: <a href="https://portal.aoos.org/?ls=rJP6wcOF#map">link</a>
+    * Visualizations remained the same, the backend has been improved to support seamless visualizations of various webcam streams.
+* Model data and virtual sensor service: 
+    * backend integration of new gridded and virtual sensor service into the portal
+    * enhanced performance for global models and a subset of regional models
+* Passive Acoustic Data:
+    * Interactive hybrid millidecade spectra visualizations with environmental sensor data: <a href="https://soundcoop.portal.axds.co/#soundcoop/datasets/ESONS">SoundCoop Portal</a>
+
+<img src="/assets/images/release_notes/v2.16_4.png" class="img-responsive" width="600"/>
+*Long-term spectogram and power spectral density visualization.*
+
+* Enhanced visualization for multi-year cruise program data:
+    * Developed new binning service to prototype and compile cruise data into a singular statewide vector visualization, enabling exploration in data view and of time-series across the entire sampling program (<a href="https://oah.caloos.org/?ls=GmigZ1Vq#map">link</a>)
+
+<img src="/assets/images/release_notes/v2.16_5.png" class="img-responsive" width="600"/>
+*Timeseries of average pH collected from CTD casts across 4 distinct cruises between 2011 and 2021.*
+
+* Custom visualization improvements for biological monitoring data:
+    * Iterated on visualization of biological monitoring data to improve interactive and exploratory elements of coastal resource monitoring data (data view compatibility, chart and hover information) for marine sanctuary applications (<a href="https://data.caloos.org/#module-metadata/eb29d751-8534-4869-a920-030566f903fa">link</a>)
+
+<div style="display: flex; max-width: 100%">
+    <img src="/assets/images/release_notes/v2.16_6.png" style="max-width: 50%" class="img-responsive" width="300"/>
+    <img src="/assets/images/release_notes/v2.16_7.png" style="max-width: 50%" class="img-responsive" width="300"/>
+</div>
+*Utilizing the map polygon tool and data view to explore trends in California mussels inside and outside National Marine Sanctuaries in California.*
+
+* Backend development of annotation service 
+* Backend development of binning service 
+* Responsiveness to user bugs and feedback