Development of integrated typhoon remote sensing application system based on .NET and ArcGIS Engine

The use of remote sensing to monitor and forecast typhoon (a severe weather system) rapidly and efficiently, is one of the prerequisites for disaster prevention and mitigation. Yet so far there only have been a few simple systems focusing on single function of typhoon´s analysis in the fields of meteorological operations, but still lack a comprehensive and integrated remote sensing application-oriented platform for typhoon that combines all kinds of data in various formats and most analysis functions. The integrated typhoon remote sensing application system newly developed by utilizing .NET and ArcGIS Engine has effectively integrated remote sensing data of different satellites and different sensors such as FY2C, NOAA, FY3A etc, and radar data, spatial geographical data as well as various kinds of thematic data related to typhoon, and capably provide with professional analysis functions such as determination of typhoon´s location, type and intensity, diagnosis of typhoon´s structure, analysis of typhoon´s track, along with rainfall estimation, as well as auxiliary analysis functions such as image processing, geographic navigation, thematic mapping and numerical weather prediction. This paper highlights the methods of software analyzing, framework and database designing adopted in object-oriented integrated typhoon remote sensing application system development and functions-realizing methods based on components. The module of typhoon disaster assessment needs to be further developed to improve the system.