Journal of The School of Marine Science and Technology,Vol.4 No.1
Development of a PC-based system for earth environmental data
management, retrieval and display
Noritsugu KIMURA, Toshiya YOSHIMURA, Ushio INOUE and Yoshihiro OKADA
Abstract
In the recent years, various institutions all over the world have observed earth environmental data through diverse means.Many of these data are now accessible to the public on the Internet,and are widely used in research investigations.However,it is often difficult for the researchers to make optimum use of such data because of diverse contents and various types used to store the data. Researchers are required to develop the database system to use such database system. The purpose of this study is to design a personal computer-based system that can load, manage, retrieve,and display various kinds of the earth environmental data with user-friendly interface. The earth environmental data to be handled with this system include satellite images as well as meteorological and oceanographic observation data. The system can retrieve and display information by using the earth maps as the interface. We demonstrate this interface enables users to recognize the relative relation between the positions of the retrieved data intuitively.