Southwest Regional Earth Science Application Center Information System

Southwest Regional Earth Science Application Center Information System and Data Management Advanced Database Research Group University of Arizona Dr. Sudha Ram Limin Zhang Anuradha Iruku Amy L. Keltner

Southwest RESAC u Manage irrigation district, reservoir and urban water management u Manage urban flash floods through improved short-term hydro-meteorological forecases u cope with natural ecosystems changes & manage regional forests and range lands u provide information system and data management for southwest climate change researchers

Objective u. Provide easy search and retrieval of the data in the Regional Earth Science Application Center usupport different user groups with or without background in remote sensing

Key Issues and Challenges Addressed u Integrate remote sensing data from different areas such as snow-cover mapping, snowmelt runoff modeling, vegetation mapping, weather and flood forecasting u Provide an intelligent interface to assist the user without remote sensing knowledge

Architecture User interface Client Java Web server JDBC Databases metadata models algorithms images papers Database server

Participants u University of Arizona Department of Management Information System Department of Hydrology & Water Resources Department of Geography & Regional Development Office of Arid Land Studies Department of Atmospheric Sciences u University of Colorado u Colorado State University u CRREL u USGS

Contributions u Support heterogeneous, distributed data u Provide easy access through an userfriendly WWW interface u Guide user through the search via an intelligent dialog

Useful Links u http: //www. hwr. arizona. edu/Alpine/Resac u http: //www. crsp. ssc. nasa. gov/resac/over view. htm