The Strategic Environmental Distributed Active Archive Resource (SEDAAR) is a prototype tool environment, and associated operational methodology, which supports the interactive search, acquisition, evaluation and analysis of distributed data and information resources. The SEDAAR Program is focused on access to and use of high-value DOD data resources for Environmental Research and Remediation applications.
The SEDAAR system makes use of existing Internet-based tools and protocols to facilitate data search and acquisition, and employs a custom graphical user-interface (GUI) to tie together various geographic information technologies including geographic information systems (GIS), scientific visualization and real-time fly through applications. It is built upon the ArcInfo GIS and its Inter-Application Communications (IAC) facilities to achieve client-server access to distributed geo-datasets. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) - compliant metadata is stored in INFO tables to characterize and catalog the individual granules of data.
Applications of SEDAAR data and tool resources have included the investigation of the Odden ice event off the coast of Greenland, the study of coastal migration near the Oregon Inlet along the North Carolina coastline, and the development of a database to support the remediation of the Hawaiian island of Kahoolawe.
Chris Chiesa
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