07/01/1993 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 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 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 environmental scientists from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), and the Center for Ocean Analysis and Prediction (NOAA/COAP). This report documents the second phase of the REINAS project during which detailed requirements for the system were defined. During this phase the user requirements for the system were sharpened, evaluations of the key components of the system were carried out, and selections of the technologies to be used in the prototype system were made. A project plan for the system is described along with a refined version of the architecture and its subsystems for data collection, data management, processing, and visualization. The objective of this document is to provide project participants and reviewers with a detailed requirements definition of REINAS as it enters the design and prototype implementation phase. It spells out the technologies to be applied, and the plans for implementing the project goals.
