Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

Science Rendezvous > Posters
The presenter is listed in italics. All poster presentations are the property of their respective authors. Please contact the authors for permission to use images, information, or ideas.

NGDC Historical Hazards Database: Standalone GIS Software Based on uDig

Jesse Varner (1), Paula Dunbar (2)

(1) CIRES, (2) NOAA National Geophysical Data Center

The NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) maintains a database of information about historical hazards such as tsunamis, significant earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions from ancient times (2000 BCE and earlier) to the present. Long-term data from these events can be used to establish the past record of natural hazard event occurrences, which is important for planning, response, and mitigation of future events. In order to meet the needs of local authorities and tsunami warning centers from countries around the world, we have developed a standalone GIS application to interact with a local copy of the historical hazards database. The software is based on uDig (User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS), an open-source GIS framework written in Java which is built upon the well-established Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). We have customized the behavior of uDig by developing plugins that allow the user to query using many different search parameters, and to display information about events on the map and in a table format.