Rockefeller State Park Website

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Rockefeller State Park Website

• Developed By
• Arati Avhad
• Xue Li
• Shirali Agrawal
• Proceedings of Student Research Day, CSIS, Pace
  University ,  May 9th, 2003

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Client

• Dr Charles Tappert (CSIS Pace)
• Dr Peggy Minnis (Dyson Pace)
• Katrina Shindledecker (Rockefeller State Park)

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Why the website?

• To attract more visitors, volunteers, and donors
  to the preserve
• No source of information easily available for the
  Preserve
• In todays age Internet is the most effective
  medium to reach people
• Websites have a major share in making most of the
  US parks popular
• Rockefeller State Park Preserve needs an online
  presence for broader visibility

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What is the website?

• The Rockefeller State Park Website is an
  attractive and interactive information gateway to
  the Rockefeller State Park Preserve, which will
  help in attracting more and more visitors to the
  park.

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What is the website?

• The site presents
• historical, geographical, geological and
  botanical information about the preserve
• information about the facilities, activities and
  programs in the preserve
• interactive trail maps
• 180 and 360-degree panoramic tours of the park

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Tools used

• HTML / JavaScript / CSS
• Java Applets
• IBM HotMedia
• ESRI ArcView GIS
• Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Adobe Photoshop

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ArcView GIS

• A powerful and easy-to-use tool, that brings
  geographic information to your desktop
• Gives the power to visualize, explore, query and
  analyze data spatially
• ArcView uses MrSID image format. This is a
  multiresolution wavelet-based image format
• Various geographical data are stored in ArcView
  using x, y, z coordinates for longitude, latitude
  and elevation

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ArcView GIS

• Geographical data can overlay the aerial
  photograph already stored in the system. One can
  then create a single view with a certain data
  superimposed on the aerial photograph giving a
  contextual image.
• One can query data satisfying certain attributes
  and as a result that data gets highlighted on the
  view.  

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IBM HotMedia

• HotMedia can provide special effects such as
• Streaming audio
• Panoramic views
• Animations
• Panning and scrolling
• Synchronized audio
• Zoomable multi-resolution images
• Hot links

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IBM HotMedia

• One can assemble the entire experience into one
  file that is easily added to a Web page and
  delivered over today's networks.
• HotMedia dynamically determines the minimal code
  and data content, which is needed and downloads
  it progressively.

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IBM HotMedia

• This code being based on Java applet technology
  requires no plug-in or special media servers.
• HotMedia works over standard HTTP protocol
  requiring no more than a standard Web server for
  all its current functionality.

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Methodology

• The site is structured into various sections
  based on the kind of information provided. Access
  to these sections is through a hierarchical
  dynamic menu system.
• In addition to standard hyperlinks using HTML and
  JavaScript, the site contains hyper linked rich
  media content.

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• DEMO!!!

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Results Conclusions

• Visitors of the preserve can be in touch with the
  preserve from the comfort of their home.
• They can keep themselves updated with the latest
  Park News, Special Events Schedule and other
  programs information.

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Results Conclusions

• With the interactive trail maps and panoramic
  views, first time visitors can get the realistic
  feel of the Preserve.
• More serious hikers can plan their day ahead
  using the trail maps and accurate trail
  information provided on the site using the
  ArcView GIS data.

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Results and Conclusions

• The HotMedia makes it possible for a
  non-technical organization like Rockefeller state
  Park Preserve to easily host interactive rich
  media content with no need to invest in special
  servers and software.
• It makes it easy to view the rich media content
  even for the slowest dial up connection user with
  no need to download large plug-ins.

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Recommendations for Future Work

• A Web Content Manager can be developed to
  facilitate to update of the site with new content
  by any non-technical person.
• Follow-on projects can also be concerned with the
  creation of databases to store and algorithms to
  analyze and present various environmental data.

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References

• http//www.friendsrock.org, accessed April 2003
• http//www.nps.gov/acad, accessed April 2003
• http//www.ibm.com/hotmedia, accessed April 2003
• http//www-3.ibm.com/software/awdtools/hotmedia/
  library/papers/architecture.html, accessed April
  2003
• http//www.esri.com/software/arcview/, accessed
  April 2003
• http//www.mapquest.com/maps/, accessed April
  2003
• http//map.tfl.gov.uk/map.asp, accessed April
  2003
• http//www.hendersoncountync.org/gis/, accessed
  April 2003
• http//www.gisonline.com/home.asp, accessed
  April 2003
• http//mapserver.co.yavapai.az.us/gis/yavgis/,
  accessed April 2003

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• Thank You!!!