Database, GIS, and Visualization Tools

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Database, GIS, and Visualization Tools?

• Michael Hamilton, Vanessa Rivera del Rio and Sean
  Askay
• University of California
• James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve

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The Role of DBMS, GIS and Scientific Data
Visualization in Sensor Networks

• A Database Management System (DBMS) is a computer
  program (or more typically, a suite of them)
  designed to manage a large set of structured
  data), and run operations on the data requested
  by numerous users. At CENS these are integral to
  managing sensor streams as they are to the end
  users of the data

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The Role of DBMS, GIS and Scientific Data
Visualization in Sensor Networks

• A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a system
  for creating and managing spatial data and
  associated attributes. In the strictest sense, it
  is a computer system capable of integrating,
  storing, editing, analyzing, and displaying
  geographically-referenced information. In CENS it
  gives us a powerful tool to integrate multi-scale
  data as well as develop and refine spatially
  explicit models to interpolate sensor values with
  topographic variables.

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The Role of DBMS, GIS and Scientific Data
Visualization in Sensor Networks

• Scientific visualization is a branch of computer
  graphics which is concerned with the presentation
  of interactive or animated digital images to
  scientists who interpret potentially huge
  quantities of laboratory or simulation data or
  the results from sensors out in the field

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The Role of DBMS, GIS and Scientific Data
Visualization in Sensor Networks

• All three are essential components of Observing
  Systems, from design and operation through data
  mining, exploration, analysis, synthesis and
  utilization by scientists and society

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