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Applied Coastal provides high level
information technology services via the World Wide Web. Geographic
information services are used extensively for data analysis and
management for most projects. Most government clients want project
information available on the web. This varies from basic project
descriptions to database access and analysis of coastal processes data
sets. Applied Coastal personnel design and implement technical web sites
for delivering geographic and oceanographic processes information on a
proprietary basis and to the public sector. Digital data delivery for
project reports, data sets, and numerical output has become an integral
component of project deliverables. We rely on state-of-technology
equipment for serving clients at high speed and relatively low cost.
Applied Coastal personnel developed a data delivery and aerial
photography tutorial site for the U.S. Army Engineering Research and
Development Center (ERDC), Coastal Inlets Research Program (CIRP) that
provides details on baseline project information at inlets maintained by
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The site contains five primary
components: 1) a description of inlet/beach processes and morphology,
and engineering activities, with photographic examples at selected
Federal inlets; 2) a glossary of technical terms related to inlets,
beaches, and navigation channels; 3) high-resolution digital aerial
photography for varying time periods at each Federal inlet, including a
description of engineering activities at the inlet; 4) a tutorial on
feature interpretation from aerial photography, including rectification
techniques and the application of GIS tools; and 5) access to a series
of analytical routines for analysis of coastal data. Another site
developed for Unocal focuses on management and analysis of current meter
data collected in support of marine drilling operations around the
world. Proprietary users are able to view time series measurements
throughout the water column using web-based MatLab routines that provide
baseline statistical summaries for each sensor and data collection
location as well.
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