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NOAA - National Weather Service

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Project Goal

The project was designed to provide an integrated sources of near real-time weather data to selected portions of the emergency management community.
The project focused on hurricane/tropical storm strikes and near-misses
to coastal states on the U.S. Gulf, Southeast and Mid-Atlantic coasts.

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Business Problem Solved

The project demonstrated that it is possible to integrate near real-time weather information from a range of sources and in multiple formats by geo-registering it and displaying it in map form.

Technology Implemented

This project used a combination of ArcView 3.2 with Avenue, ArcGIS 8.3 map objects and ArcIMS 4.0.1.

Development Team Biography

Ira Graffman of National Weather Service (NWS) Office of Science and Technology. was the architect and integrator of the system. He has a B.S. in Meteorology from Penn State.

Frank Richards of the NWS’ Office of Climate, Water and Weather Services translated user requirements into project specifications. He has a B.S. in Meteorology from Lowell Technological Institute and an M.S. in Atmospheric Science from the State University of New York at Albany.

Dario Leonardo of the NWS’ Office of Science and Technology provided systems support. He is Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and has a Associate of Art degree from Catonsville Community College.

John Kozimor of the QSS Group, Inc., led a team of developers that included Daniel Konde of the QSS Group and Rory Moore of Raytheon Corp.

In addition to managing contractor support, Mr. Kozimor provided ArcIMS development; he has B.S from Ohio University and M.S. in Geographic Information Science from Salem State College.

- Mr. Konde has B.S. in Geography from James Madison University and developed code in Avenue and Visual Basic.

- Mr. Moore developed data transformation software, primarily in Visual Basic; he has a B.S. in Computer and Information Science
University of Maryland, University College.