DIVA-Digital Interactive Venus Atlas

Author

Niederl, Franz ; Kemmer, Thomas ; Walcher, Wolfgang ; Bolter, Regine

Author_Institution

Comput. Graphics & Vision, Graz Univ. of Technol., Austria

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

6-10 Jul 1998

Firstpage

390

Abstract

The Digital Interactive Venus Atlas (DIVA) is a remote sensing information system for a catalog of SAR radar image data from the Magellan mission to Venus (1990-1994). The system consists of a Java based user interface accessible via the WWW, an image map pyramid covering almost the entire Venusian surface, a remote interface to a data archive and a metadata catalog to retrieve quicklooks and information about the data sets available. DIVA makes intensive use of Java´s multi-threading capabilities to avoid the performance penalties of traditional WWW-based interfaces. Its state of the art user interface consists of a scalable, clickable image map for interactive formulation of spatial queries. It provides fast and easy access to the image catalog in a platform-independent way

Keywords

PACS; Venus; astronomy computing; geographic information systems; planetary surfaces; radioastronomy; visual databases; AD 1990 to 1994; DIVA; Digital Interactive Venus Atlas; GIS; Java; Magellan; SAR radar image; WWW; astronomy; clickable image map; geographic information system; image map pyramid; planet surface; radioastronomy; remote sensing information system; user interface; Information retrieval; Information systems; Java; Radar imaging; Radar remote sensing; Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture radar; User interfaces; Venus; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, 1998. IGARSS '98. 1998 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4403-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1998.702915

Filename

702915