Experience with a South Florida information management system for oil spills

Author

Douligeris, Christos ; Collins, John ; Blanco, Rolando ; Sun, Peixing

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Miami Univ., Coral Gables, FL, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

23-26 Sep 1996

Firstpage

739

Abstract

The Oil Spill Information Management System (OSIMS) provides environmental, ecological, geographical, engineering, and regulatory information to bear all actors involved in oil spill research, strategic activities, and response efforts. OSIMS combines the data management capabilities of an extended relational database with facilities for data visualization, management of geographical data, and a rule-based object-oriented expert system. In this paper the authors concentrate on the hierarchical structure of OSIMS and they present in depth the design of its advanced visualization capabilities

Keywords

data visualisation; environmental science computing; expert systems; geographic information systems; geophysics computing; object-oriented databases; oceanographic regions; oceanography; water pollution; water pollution control; water pollution measurement; Florida Strait; GIS; Gulf of Mexico; North Atlantic; OSIMS; Oil Spill Information Management System; South Florida information management system; USA; United States; data management; data visualization; environmental science; extended relational database; geographic information system; hierarchical structure; marine pollution; ocean; oil slick; oil spill; oil spill research; regulatory information; response effort; rule-based object-oriented expert system; strategic activities; water pollution; Data visualization; Expert systems; Information management; Law; Legal factors; Management information systems; Object oriented modeling; Petroleum; Sun; Visual databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS '96. MTS/IEEE. Prospects for the 21st Century. Conference Proceedings

Conference_Location

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3519-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.1996.568319

Filename

568319