1. Michael Hamilton, Vanessa Rivera del Rio and Sean Askay University of California James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve

2. 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

3. 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 multi- scale data as well as develop and refine spatially explicit models to interpolate sensor values with topographic variables. 30m Digital Elevation ModelSlope/ Aspect ModelsFlow Direction Model Soil Moisture Model Soil Moisture Measurements

4. 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

5. 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