Live Access Server (LAS)

Roland H. Schweitzer
CDC

NOAA's Pacific Marine Environment Laboratory distributes the Live Access Server (LAS), a popular Web-based system for providing access to geo-referenced scientific data. At the Climate Diagnostics
Center we are continuing to experiment with this system for providing Web-based access to our collection of climate data.

As climate data providers we must provide robust and flexible mechanisms for users to search, create plots and subsets and download data from our Web site. The Live Access Sever user interface goes a long way toward meeting those goals. However, in order to provide interfaces that more closely match
the character of the data being examined we have experimented with creating custom interfaces to be used by LAS.

At CDC we have created custom interfaces by integrating off-the-shelf technologies, the JOUST Javascript menu system, Java Server Pages and Java Servlets. Each of these components is a well-supported open source system. By using these leading edge open-source pieces we have created a robust, but low-cost system.

BIO - Roland H. Schweitzer Roland currently works in the data management group at CDC. The group manages local and public access to the center's collection of climate data. In addition, Roland works on the web access to that data. As part of his work on the web interface to the climate data, he has been using Java Servlets and JSP. He created a tutorial that uses those technologies and is also working on scientific visualization projects using VisAD and the Gridded Data Viewer.

Auditorium - Paper Wednesday - 11:10 - 11:30 A.M.