Warfighting Support Center Rapid Environmental Assessment Chart - Tactical Naval Oceanographic Office
What is REACT ? Digital geographic information systems (GIS) product that allows METOC data to be viewed using a free COTS GIS browser (Arc Explorer) on WIN95/98/NT box Custom-tailored environmental displays to support mission planning and operational requirements Provides the customer with the capability to display and manipulate imagery/oceanographic models/near-real time oceanographic data/meteorological data in a GIS format Naval Oceanographic Office
What makes up REACT? Static Data Sets Raster - LandSat, SPOT, DTED, ADRG, TARPS, acoustic imagery, aerial photography Vector - bathymetry (contours/soundings), NIMA wrecks/obstructions, bottom sediments, World Vector Shoreline (WVS), slope analysis Naval Oceanographic Office
Dynamic Data Sets Raster - AVHRR Vector - Sea surface temperature, scatterometry, acoustic properties of seawater, wave direction and height, current speed and direction, wind speed and direction at various levels, surface pressure, surface precipitation What makes up REACT? Naval Oceanographic Office
Raster Examples LandSat Imagery
Naval Oceanographic Office Raster Examples AVHRR Image
Naval Oceanographic Office Raster Examples LandSat Image (30m resolution) SPOT Image (10m resolution) Side Scan Sonar Image (1m resolution) Different types of imagery viewed at the same time
Naval Oceanographic Office Vector Examples NOAA Bathymetry and NIMA World Vector Shoreline
Naval Oceanographic Office Vector Examples NIMA Wrecks and Obstructions
Naval Oceanographic Office Vector Examples Surface Winds and Air Temperature from FNMOC
Naval Oceanographic Office Vector Examples Wave Models from NAVO N2
Static Themes (imagery, bathymetry, land, wrecks) activated … user selects other themes to display such as surface winds and significant wave directions
Surface Winds at 48HR Forecast with 00HR and 24HR Runs
… user can find out what information is available concerning any front … and the same could be done with any other theme Identifying Features
… user creates a query on a selected theme, such as MODAS in this case Building a Data Query
… user zooms to area of interest