Item: Visualizing Snow Profiles
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Title: Visualizing Snow Profiles
Proceedings: International Snow Science Workshop Grenoble – Chamonix Mont-Blanc - October 07-11, 2013
Authors:
- Matthias Gerber [ WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland ]
- Charles Fierz [ WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland ]
- Pascal Haegeli [ Avisualanche Consulting, Vancouver BC, Canada ]
Date: 2013-10-07
Abstract: The introduction of the CAAML 5.0 Profile for IACS Snow Profiles (Haegeli et al., 2010) created the necessary foundation for facilitating the exchange of snow profiles among different applications. There are many different applications on the market to create and visualize snow profile information, all of them address slightly different needs. However, the ability exchanging profile data across different applications is currently quite limited, which considerably hinders collaborations among avalanche safety operations and researchers. The goal of this project is to provide a freely accessible web service for the visualisation of snow profile data. The functionality of web service is based on components from the SLF snow profile application and can accept snow profile data from any sources in the CAAML 5.0 snow profile format. The web service can either be used by human users via the provided user interface or by other applications via its RESTful API. Once a CAAML 5.0 file is uploaded, the web service returns a visual representation of the snow profile as an image or a PDF file. In addition to the web service, we also provide a couple of open source components written in Java to convert CAAML 5.0 snow profiles into other XML formats or a Java object model, and to render the object model into an image or a PDF file. These components will give other groups a head start for the development of other snow profile visualization functionalities and enhance to collaborative development of snow profile software for avalanche safety professionals and researchers.
Language of Article: English
Presenters: Unknown
Keywords: information exchange, xml, caaml 5.0, iacs, snow profile, visualization
Page Number(s): 469-472
Subjects: snow profile avalanche safety
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