Visualization of weather-induced disaster warning information system using Google Earth API based on Mashup

The recent development of Geographical Information Science has facilitated its application on meteorological information services at high frequency. As a new pattern of system architecture, Mashup means to collect and aggregate distributed data and services from internet, so as to develop a new application. Among numerous types of Mashup application, geographical information Mashup is the most popular one. This paper proposes to employ Google Earth API, a provider of geographical information Mashup, into meteorological information services, and illustrate the approach and framework for aggregating resources from Google Earth API and local meteorological database into a B/S system. In the end, the framework is detailed in an application case, three-dimensional geographical information system of weather-induced disaster warning, which is featured by high visualization, high browsing speed and multi-user.