01/01/1993 09:00 AM
Computer Engineering
REINAS is a research and development program with the goal of designing, developing and testing an operational prototype system for data acquisition, data management and visualization. This system is to support the real-time utilization of advanced instrumentation in environmental science where continuous time measurements and improved spatial resolution allow monitoring and understanding of environmental phenomena in much greater detail than has previously been possible. The system will also support the retrospective use of integrated environmental data sets. The scientific problem chosen to provide a focus for study is in the area of air-sea-land interaction, in particular, seabreeze development and the oceanic response to it in Monterey Bay. The project is a multi-year effort of the Baskin Center for Computer Engineering and Information Sciences of the University of California, Santa Cruz, in cooperation with the environmental and marine scientists from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), and the Center for Ocean Anallysis and Prediction (NOAA/COAP). This report is the Concept Statement for the REINAS project in which the initial system requirements and project plan for the system is described along with a preliminary architecture and its subsystems for data collection, data management, processing and visualization which are required for real-time operational applications in the marine environment. The objective of this document is to provide project participants and reviewers a baseline description of the problem that REINAS is targeting, the technology to be applied, and a plan for meeting project goals. The concepts discussed are meant to provide clear and concise direction for project activities and clear evaluation criteria for products produced by the REINAS team. Collected in the appendices of this report are details and documentation concerning the data sources, related projects, etc. that seem related to REINAS.
