Improvement of METOC Analysis and Forecast Visualizations

Abstract

Current METOC weather visualization tools do not allow war fighters, forecasters, and researchers to analyze and co-display environmental data over realistic topographic and bathyrnetric backgrounds. The Joint METOC Global Image Interface provides decision makers and geoscientists with an intuitive tool for interactively viewing, overlaying, and outputting the full suite of FNMOC distributed environmental data over realistic and accurate terrain, coastlines, hydrography, and locally obtained imagery. Full integration into the Joint METOC Viewer ensures minimal training time for operational use and geodata distribution is accomplished on the program distribution CD or over the web. The evolution of traditional METOC visualization, and the characteristics of the geodatabases are discussed and recommendations for further work in this area are presented. New capabilities are illustrated using real world examples drawn from diverse application areas.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA384250

Entities

People

  • Keith P. Barto

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Data Centers
  • Databases
  • Geography
  • Grids
  • Information Systems
  • Navigation
  • Operating Systems
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • United States
  • Web Browsers
  • World Geodetic System

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Computer Vision.
  • Database Systems and Applications