Internet-Based Information DisseminationSTI software specialists have developed a wide range of software and data management systems to disseminate environmental information for scientific and general public use. Real-time software written in Visual Basic and C++ acquires, processes, and stores data in relational databases and then distributes this information on the Internet. For example, the general public can learn about air quality from our ozone movies that animate hourly ozone concentrations, web sites that show current monitoring data, and AirAlert, an e-mail system that forewarns asthmatics, the elderly, coaches, parents, and others about unhealthy air. SmogCity, a Java program, is an interactive air pollution simulator that shows how weather, emissions, and population affect air pollution. To help meteorologists examine aloft weather conditions and remotely monitor a network of radar wind profilers, STI programmers use Visual Basic and Cold Fusion to develop displays of real-time data from the upper atmosphere for the Internet. |
