J19.3
Development of a consumer oriented meteorological display system using web mapping services
Yaniv A. Zimet, Weather Underground, Inc., San Francisco, CA; and J. J. Celenza, T. Roche, M. T. Kallio, M. Beaver, and R. W. Carver
With the introduction of web mapping services such as Yahoo! Maps,
Microsoft Virtual Earth, and Google Maps, it has become possible to
create interactive web based applications for displaying geocoded
information like meteorological data. However, these data sets use
formats that mesh poorly with current web development paradigms.
Others have proposed `"tiling" systems that pre-render these data collections
into more amenable formats at varying resolutions. In this paper, we
will show that this technique is not practical for rapidly updating data sets. We will also discuss solutions for ingesting and
displaying surface data, geostationary satellite data, WSR-88D radar
data, numerical weather prediction model data, and other geolocated
data using our web mapping application.
Joint Session 19, Use of Virtual and Digital Globes for Visualizing Satellite Data and “Mashups"
Thursday, 15 January 2009, 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Room 121BC
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