Title :
A distributed, multimedia environmental information system
Author :
Sharnowski, Joseph L. ; Gannod, Gerald C. ; Cheng, Betty H C
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA
Abstract :
Scientific research addressing global change continues to generate large quantities of information for analysis and understanding. However, the volume, distributed nature, and diversity of this information prohibits convenient access by many potential users. This paper describes an object-oriented, distributed system consisting of an integrated collection of software tools that allows a user to query and manipulate distributed, multimedia data sets through a graphical user interface (GUI). The tool, ENFORMS (ENvironmental inFORMation System), is currently populated with environmental information for use in a regional watershed analysis project
Keywords :
distributed databases; environmental science computing; geographic information systems; graphical user interfaces; information systems; multimedia computing; object-oriented databases; query processing; ENFORMS; GUI; distributed multimedia data set manipulation; distributed multimedia information system; environmental information system; global change; graphical user interface; object-oriented distributed system; regional watershed analysis project; software tools; user queries; Computer science; Geographic Information Systems; Graphical user interfaces; Humans; Information analysis; Information retrieval; Information systems; Multimedia systems; Object oriented modeling; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1995., Proceedings of the International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7105-X
DOI :
10.1109/MMCS.1995.484918
