1. Pre Project Proposal Presentation Weather Monitoring by 1.Jeff Sickle 2.Alan Yuelkenbeck 3.Dayong Guo 4.Pirun Hemwattakit

2. Members’ technical background and Responsibility Jeff Sickels –pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. has an Associates Degree in Computer Science. Acquainted with many programming languages such as Pascal, Java, FORTRAN, C and C++. Has been working for 21 years as an Electronic Technician and then another four years as an IT Spec. with US government. Currently, repairing computers for the National Weather Service at their national repair depot located in Kansas City, MO. Gained experience working in the position as team leader of a repair shop for six years Responsibility for this project – Leader of this project, coding, and editing

3. Members’ technical background and Responsibility Alan Yuelkenbeck – pursuing Bachelor degree in Computer Science and minor in Math. has an Associated Degree in Business. experience programming in C++, Assembly language and Visual Basic. Responsibility for this project - project’s idea, coding, and documenting Dayong Guo –a biologist with background of biochemistry and oral biology. Currently, first semester of Interdisciplinary Ph.D. study, with coordinate major in Oral Biology and co-discipline Informatics. studied C++, Data structure & algorithm, Database, and operating system. Responsibility for this project – coding and documenting Pirun Hemwattakit – pursuing his bachelor degree in Computer science and minor in Physic. program in C++. interested in AI programming and Database management. Responsibility for this project - documenting and coding

4. Scope of Project/Problem Statement Provide weather condition in a local area from data which provided by the National Weather Service (NWS) to a user’s computer Send an alert to a users’ computer when there bad weather conditions in the area like heavy rain, ice storm, and hurricane. Modifying data from NWS’s Informational project to meet the needs of our project.

5. Significance and Uniqueness of Project This project will monitor the NWS web site and Send the user an alert when bad weather conditions are in the local area.

6. Scope of Project/Problem Statement Use two internet base formats, Really Simple Syndication (RSS) and Extra Marked up Language (XML), to observe and exchange weather data from the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) station in the local area.

7. Potential Technologies This project will use RSS, XML, Java and any other programming language deemed necessary to accomplish the project.

8. Issues/Concerns/Backup Project Update information from NWS. The information from the NWS is in an experimental phase; so, it might be terminated before finishing developing the project. Updates once every hour, so the data is not in real time.

9. Backup Project purpose by Jeff Sickels. It is base on java program which involves a server and a client. There will be an access to database and java program running on the server. The java program on the server is used to access the database and get information from the database. The java program on the client is used to connect to the server program and send the request from the user to the database and then transfer the requested information back to the user. Use other source from http://weather.yahoo.com/rss/