The Meteorological Data Delivery and Visualisation (MDDV) Project aims to develop a prototype software framework to demonstrate improved on-line delivery and on-demand processing and visualisation of meteorological data sets, both as products in themselves and to enable additional decision support applications. The Project is being done in collaboration with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
The Project's two major demonstration components are visualisation of meteorological data and cached management and delivery of such data over broadband networks. These are intended to provide prototypes to demonstrate the emerging software technologies for on-line meteorological data systems to Bureau of Meteorology regional offices and other interested parties, and to be of direct use to the Adelaide Regional Forecast Office.
The Project is a technology demonstrator aimed at two groups of end users: operational meteorologists and forecasters working at a regional forecast centre; and decision makers planning or coordinating emergency response to a critical situation such as a bushfire or cyclone.
For more information, contact Ken Hawick.