1. Advanced Database Research Group University of Arizona
Southwest Regional Earth Science Application Center Information System and Data Management
Advanced Database Research Group
University of Arizona
Dr. Sudha Ram
Limin Zhang
Anuradha Iruku
Amy L. Keltner

2. Southwest RESAC
Manage irrigation district, reservoir and urban water management
Manage urban flash floods through improved short-term hydro-meteorological forecases
cope with natural ecosystems changes & manage regional forests and range lands
provide information system and data management for southwest climate change researchers

3. Objective
Provide easy search and retrieval of the data in the Regional Earth Science Application Center
support different user groups with or without background in remote sensing

4. Key Issues and Challenges Addressed
Integrate remote sensing data from different areas such as snow-cover mapping, snowmelt runoff modeling, vegetation mapping, weather and flood forecasting
Provide an intelligent interface to assist the user without remote sensing knowledge

5. Architecture User interface Client Java Web server JDBC Databases
metadata
models
algorithms
images
papers

6. Participants University of Arizona University of Colorado
Department of Management Information System
Department of Hydrology & Water Resources
Department of Geography & Regional Development
Office of Arid Land Studies
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
University of Colorado
Colorado State University
CRREL
USGS

7. Contributions Support heterogeneous, distributed data
Provide easy access through an user-friendly WWW interface
Guide user through the search via an intelligent dialog

8. Useful Links http://www.hwr.arizona.edu/Alpine/Resac