A Water Quality Database Management System,

Abstract

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (CE) Environmental and Water Quality Operational Studies (EWQOS) research program established a number of objectives to be met by the Reservoir Field Studies (RFS) team. In order to provide the information necessary to meet these objectives, numerous and diverse limnological data were collected at four representative (CE) reservoirs. The magnitude of such a program made the management of information a critical phase in research design. The establishment and successful operation of a database management system (DBMS) was essential for achieving research objectives. Although the RFS DBMS application is not a database management system in the purest sense, it still prescribes to conceptual characteristics of database management systems and involves the management of a large water quality database. This paper will present basic concepts for database management systems, overview the Statistical Analysis System (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC), and describe the RFS DBMS.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADP004768

Entities

People

  • R. C. Gunkel Jr.

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army
  • Army Corps Of Engineers
  • Database Management Systems
  • Databases
  • Engineers
  • Information Science
  • Quality Control
  • Reservoirs
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Water Quality

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Riverine Ecology