Recorded presentation12.3
A Google Earth application for querying personalized weather data
Joe Young, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and T. M. Smith, V. Lakshmanan, and K. D. Hondl
This paper describes a technique for displaying real-time, rapidly updating geospatial weather data in a Google Earth web interface. Queries may be conducted over the web from a virtual globe client that interacts with a XML web service that caches and provides operations on large geospatial data grids. Queries may be conducted for a specific grid point, for an area defined by a polygon, or along a line, all drawn by the user. "Alarms" may also be set up for real-time data fields exceeding a threshold at a particular location or locations, which alerts the user that the threshold has been exceeded via a pop-up box or email message. Trends of data at a point may also be produced on demand. Input grids include current analyses, historical analyses, and future forecast grids of any meteorological data field.
Session 12, Virtual Globe technology and applications
Thursday, 15 January 2009, 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Room 121BC
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