Towards an integrated Flood Information System: Centralized data access, analysis, and visualization

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 50, Issue , 2013, Pages 77-84

  Demir, Ibrahim ^a,b   Krajewski, Witold F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b ZIRVE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cyberinfrastructure; Data integration; Environmental information systems; Information visualization and communication; Web services and data sharing

Indexed keywords

CYBER INFRASTRUCTURES; DATA SHARING; ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INTERACTIVE INTERFACES; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

DATA INTEGRATION; DATA VISUALIZATION; FLOOD CONTROL; GAGES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RAIN; VISUALIZATION; WATER LEVELS; WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES;

FLOODS;

DATA ACQUISITION; FLOOD FORECASTING; GAUGE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MAPPING; REAL TIME; SEASONAL VARIATION; VISUALIZATION;

IOWA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884925640     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.08.009     Document Type: Article

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