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Michael Hamilton, Vanessa Rivera del Rio and Sean
Askay
University of California
James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve
The Role of DBMS, GIS and Scientific Data
Visualization in Sensor Networks
– A Database Management System (DBMS) is a computer program
(or more typically, a suite of them) designed to manage a large set
of structured data), and run operations on the data requested by
numerous users. At CENS these are integral to managing sensor
streams as they are to the end users of the data
The Role of DBMS, GIS and Scientific Data
Visualization in Sensor Networks
– A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a system for creating
and managing spatial data and associated attributes. In the strictest
sense, it is a computer system capable of integrating, storing,
editing, analyzing, and displaying geographically-referenced
information. In CENS it gives us a powerful tool to integrate multiscale data as well as develop and refine spatially explicit models to
interpolate sensor values with topographic variables.
Soil Moisture Measurements
30m Digital Elevation Model
Slope/ Aspect Models
Flow Direction Model
Soil Moisture Model
The Role of DBMS, GIS and Scientific Data
Visualization in Sensor Networks
– Scientific visualization is a branch of computer graphics which is
concerned with the presentation of interactive or animated digital
images to scientists who interpret potentially huge quantities of
laboratory or simulation data or the results from sensors out in the
field
The Role of DBMS, GIS and Scientific Data
Visualization in Sensor Networks
All three are essential components of Observing Systems, from
design and operation through data mining, exploration, analysis,
synthesis and utilization by scientists and society
On to the DEMO