Title :
Experience with a South Florida information management system for oil spills
Author :
Douligeris, Christos ; Collins, John ; Blanco, Rolando ; Sun, Peixing
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Miami Univ., Coral Gables, FL, USA
Abstract :
The Oil Spill Information Management System (OSIMS) provides environmental, ecological, geographical, engineering, and regulatory information to bear all actors involved in oil spill research, strategic activities, and response efforts. OSIMS combines the data management capabilities of an extended relational database with facilities for data visualization, management of geographical data, and a rule-based object-oriented expert system. In this paper the authors concentrate on the hierarchical structure of OSIMS and they present in depth the design of its advanced visualization capabilities
Keywords :
data visualisation; environmental science computing; expert systems; geographic information systems; geophysics computing; object-oriented databases; oceanographic regions; oceanography; water pollution; water pollution control; water pollution measurement; Florida Strait; GIS; Gulf of Mexico; North Atlantic; OSIMS; Oil Spill Information Management System; South Florida information management system; USA; United States; data management; data visualization; environmental science; extended relational database; geographic information system; hierarchical structure; marine pollution; ocean; oil slick; oil spill; oil spill research; regulatory information; response effort; rule-based object-oriented expert system; strategic activities; water pollution; Data visualization; Expert systems; Information management; Law; Legal factors; Management information systems; Object oriented modeling; Petroleum; Sun; Visual databases;
Conference_Titel :
OCEANS '96. MTS/IEEE. Prospects for the 21st Century. Conference Proceedings
Conference_Location :
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3519-8
DOI :
10.1109/OCEANS.1996.568319
