Item: The Software Behind the Interactive Display of the Swiss Avalanche Bulletin
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Title: The Software Behind the Interactive Display of the Swiss Avalanche Bulletin
Proceedings: International Snow Science Workshop Grenoble – Chamonix Mont-Blanc - October 07-11, 2013
Authors:
- Marc Ruesch [ WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, 7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland ]
- Andreas Egloff [ WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, 7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland ]
- Matthias Gerber [ WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, 7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland ]
- Gerd Weiss [ WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, 7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland ]
- Kurt Winkler [ WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, 7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland ]
Date: 2013-10-07
Abstract: The step towards interactively displaying the avalanche bulletins twice a day in four languages raised the need for specifically designed software tools to support the avalanche forecasters in their daily work of producing the avalanche bulletin and make them publicly accessible. Due to the various forms of visualization and location specific bulletins, the final products (printed reports, interactive web-pages, interactive mobile applications) cannot be produced manually. Data entry graphical user interfaces are required to provide the avalanche forecasters with a platform to define and describe the current situation and store the abstracted data into a database. Based on this abstracted data, other software tools will then produce the intermediate (maps, web-page fragments, text blocks) and final products. Finally, web technology and mobile applications present the generated avalanche bulletin in an interactive form to the end user. We present a technical insight into the specifically developed software required to generate and publish the avalanche bulletin, starting with the data entry and ending with the visualization of the final products to the end user.
Language of Article: English
Presenters: Unknown
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, software tools, avalanche bulletin, mobile applications
Page Number(s): 406-412
Subjects: avalanche forecasting avalanche bulletin computer software
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