Animation of model results or temporal raster data.

Animation of the European Regional Seas Ecosystem Model (ERSEM), showing chlorophyll during a spring bloom on the East coast of England.

Results of work produced by Allen et al. at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK, as part of the LOIS UK thematic research programme.

Technical detail. The animation is a series of raster images stored in the database. These raster images could equally represent satellite images or scanned maps. Raster images can be stored as byte or real numbers.