A Web Service-based Framework for Temporal/Spatial Environmental Data Access

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rogerio B. Andrade ◽  
Luiza Nunes ◽  
Eduardo Batista de_Moraes Barbosa ◽  
Nandamudi L. Vijaykumar ◽  
Rafael Duarte Coelho dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Web Service ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Environmental Data

Data Inter-Operability Driven by Oceanic Data Assimilation Needs

1999 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Charles Sun
Keyword(s):  
Data Assimilation ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Heterogeneous Data ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Ocean Dynamics ◽  
Data Systems ◽  
Oceanographic Data ◽  
Ease Of Access ◽  
Access To Data ◽  
Station Location

An interactive data access and retrieval system, developed at the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Genter (NODG) and available at <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" href="http://www.node.noaa.gov">http://www.node.noaa.gov</ext-link>, is presented in this paper. The purposes of this paper are: (1) to illustrate the procedures of quality control and loading oceanographic data into the NODG ocean databases and (2) to describe the development of a system to manage, visualize, and disseminate the NODG data holdings over the Internet. The objective of the system is to provide ease of access to data that will be required for data assimilation models. With advances in scientific understanding of the ocean dynamics, data assimilation models require the synthesis of data from a variety of resources. Modern intelligent data systems usually involve integrating distributed heterogeneous data and information sources. As the repository for oceanographic data, NOAA’s National Oceanographic Data Genter (NODG) is in a unique position to develop such a data system. In support of the data assimilation needs, NODG has developed a system to facilitate browsing of the oceanographic environmental data and information that is available on-line at NODG. Users may select oceanographic data based on geographic areas, time periods and measured parameters. Once the selection is complete, users may produce a station location plot, produce plots of the parameters or retrieve the data.

Recent Progress in Applying Advanced Computation Methods to Radar-Based Wave Measurements

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morten Loell Vinther ◽  
Torbjørn Eide ◽  
Aurelia Paraschiv ◽  
Dickon Bonvik-Stone
Keyword(s):  
Doppler Radar ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Wave Measurements ◽  
Current Profiler ◽  
Pulse Doppler ◽  
Calm Weather

Abstract High quality environmental data are critical for any offshore activity relying on data insights to form appropriate planning and risk mitigation routines under challenging weather conditions. Such data are the most significant driver of future footprint reduction in offshore industries, in terms of costs savings, as well as operational safety and efficiency, enabled through ease of data access for all relevant stakeholders. This paper describes recent advancements in methods used by a dual-footprint Pulse-Doppler radar to provide accurate and reliable ocean wave height measurements. Achieved improvements during low wind weather conditions are presented and compared to data collected from other sources such as buoys and acoustic doppler wave and current profiler (ADCP) or legacy. The study is based on comparisons of recently developed algorithms applied to different data sets recorded at various sites, mostly covering calm weather conditions.

The German Environmental Information Portal PortalU

2010 ◽  
pp. 337-346
Author(s):  
Stefanie Konstantinidis ◽  
Fred Kruse ◽  
Martin Klenke
Keyword(s):  
Web Service ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Organisational Structure ◽  
Information Portal ◽  
Current Discussion ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Public Organisations

In Germany, public environmental data are in the responsibility of several different public organisations and institutions. The German Environmental Information Portal PortalU® (www.portalu.de) is a web service operated by the environmental administrations to make digital environmental information easier accessible, usable and exploitable for both citizens and environmental experts. The fruitful long-time co-operation between the environmental administrations is an example for a well working organisational structure within a federal state. In this chapter the PortalU technology and the content of the portal are presented. Due to the current discussion referring to INSPIRE, a special focus is set on publishing INSPIRE conform metadata.

Spatial Monitoring and Routing System for the Transportation of Hazardous Materials

2001 ◽  
pp. 227-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azedine Boulmakoul ◽  
Robert Laurini ◽  
Karine Zeitouni
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Data Interoperability ◽  
Processing Technologies ◽  
Environmental Information Systems ◽  
Effective Use

The concept of Environmental Information Systems (EIS) emerged from the concerns and the efforts carried on by world wide private and official organisations in order to promote an effective use of environmental data. These data are of various natures such as statistics, thematic maps, or documents describing the identification and the quantification of the environmental resources. The Environmental Information Systems became institutional tools providing pragmatic solutions for sustainable development in various fields. The objective of an EIS is to increase the quality and the efficiency in the decision-making process. To achieve this goal, the EIS requires the integration of various information processing technologies: Geographical Information Systems (GIS); Database Management Systems (DBMS); Space Imagery; Decision Support Systems (DSS); etc. However, the implementation of such an integration generates new requirements, namely data interoperability, data description by metadata, reverse engineering from existing applications and remote data access and data processing. This leads to the reconsideration of the analysis and design methodology.

Restful Web Service and Web-Based Data Visualization for Environmental Monitoring

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sungchul Lee ◽  
Ju-Yeon Jo ◽  
Yoohwan Kim
Keyword(s):  
Web Service ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Renewable Energy Resources ◽  
Service Architecture ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Restful Web Service ◽  
Rest Api

The Nevada Solar Energy-Water-Environment Nexus project collects a large amount of environmental data from a variety of sensors such as soil, atmosphere, biology, and ecology. Mostly, the environmental data is related to a development of renewable energy resources in the Nexus project. The environmental data can have an impact on other research fields if it can easily be shared with other researchers, students, teachers, and general users. Therefore, Nevada Climate Change Portal (NCCP) site was created for Nexus project with a purpose of sharing such data. However, there are some challenges to address in utilizing such data, collecting the data, and sharing the data among the users. In this research, the authors propose Extended Web Service Architecture for solving these challenges. The authors implement Arduino instead of CR1000 as a collector due to its cost effectiveness. The authors also use REST API to overcome the limitations of Arduino. Moreover, the authors experiment with popular Web-based data visualization tools such as Google Chart, Flex, OFC, and D3 to visualize NCCP data.

scholarly journals Smart Environmental Data Infrastructures: Bridging the Gap between Earth Sciences and Citizens

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 856 ◽  
Author(s):  
José R. R. Viqueira ◽  
Sebastián Villarroya ◽  
David Mera ◽  
José A. Taboada
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
Earth Science ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Data Representation ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Science Data ◽  
Data Infrastructures ◽  
Earth Science Data

The monitoring and forecasting of environmental conditions is a task to which much effort and resources are devoted by the scientific community and relevant authorities. Representative examples arise in meteorology, oceanography, and environmental engineering. As a consequence, high volumes of data are generated, which include data generated by earth observation systems and different kinds of models. Specific data models, formats, vocabularies and data access infrastructures have been developed and are currently being used by the scientific community. Due to this, discovering, accessing and analyzing environmental datasets requires very specific skills, which is an important barrier for their reuse in many other application domains. This paper reviews earth science data representation and access standards and technologies, and identifies the main challenges to overcome in order to enable their integration in semantic open data infrastructures. This would allow non-scientific information technology practitioners to devise new end-user solutions for citizen problems in new application domains.

A Web Based Data Processing Concept for Building Diagnostics and Performance Evaluation

2019 ◽  
Vol 887 ◽  
pp. 641-649
Author(s):  
Matthias Schuss ◽  
Farhang Tahmasebi ◽  
Ardeshir Mahdavi
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Data Processing ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Data Logging ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Related Service ◽  
The Impact

Buildings are responsible for a major amount of the annual energy consumption. A detailed recording and evaluation of building data could provide a deeper understanding of building operation schemes and the corresponding performance. This could help building owners and operators to evaluate and better understand the actual situation. Based on this (real-time) data an optimized operation scheme can be designed and implemented for future time steps. Additionally, a more detailed understanding of the impact of previous building systems interactions will be possible. The building automation industry and the related service provider sector are actually providing proprietary solutions for data logging, visualization and energy optimization. Such solutions are regularly integrated into their own specific software of the used proprietary building management solutions. As an alternative, we suggest an Internet of Things (IoT) and web services inspired concept for the implementation of a generic web service for building diagnostics. Our suggestion encompasses a holistic performance evaluation that considers both the energy consumptions and delivered building service. In this contribution, a general design of a web service based solution is presented and the future possibilities for data access from various sources are discussed. Furthermore, details of actually developed and demonstratively implemented software components for data preprocessing are presented. Data processing examples for different types of data are included and highlight the potential of such web-based approaches. Moreover, possibilities for improved building control by the use of web services for operation schedule generation or model predictive control are illustrated and critically debated.

A Web Service Model for Climate Data Access on the Grid

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Woolf ◽  
Keith Haines ◽  
Chunlei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Web Service ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
Service Model
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