OTIS: Operational Text Inspection Subsystem
Senior Project: 1999-2000
Robert Derstadt, Nathan Meurer, Jennifer Miller, Jeremy Spencer and Kirk Washburn
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Forecast Systems
Laboratory (FSL) is the producer of the data ingest and distribution
functionality and the main user interface for the National Weather Service's
Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS). AWIPS is a large,
complex and complete system. It is used every moment of every day at 132
Weather Forecast Offices and 24 other centers around the United States to
forecast weather in a real time setting.
The goal of the project was to replace the existing interface for retrieving
text products, such as real time reports from various weather stations, with a
graphical interface. This interface allows a user to see a display of the
various stations on a map, select an arbitrary set of stations of interest, and
interactively obtain reports for these stations from real time data. The system
provides facilities for zooming and panning on the map, displaying the map
using a wide variety of projections, controlling the display of map components,
and the saving and loading of the current settings and selections. The software
was written in C++ and Motif and runs on a UNIX platform.
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