Interactive Display and Query of Near Real-Time Data from a Hydrologic Alert Network
Author(s)
Liebermann, Timothy D.
Ciegler, Janet C.
Lambert, Susan C.
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Hatcher, Kathryn J.
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Abstract
Within the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), an extensive hydrologic network exists to record and transmit currently sensed data to the Automated Data Processing System (ADAPS; Dempster 1990). Data values are recorded at field sampling sites on electronic data-col1ection platforms (DCP). These values are transmitted by satellite to a ground station and by telecommunications
lines to a USGS District office. There they are processed within ADAPS on a Prime minicomputer. Data that exceed predefined thresholds are identified as alert values.
These data help alert water-resource specialists that hydrologic events are occurring. Knowledge of the current
alert status at sampling sites within a State is of critical importance during floods, hurricanes, and other extreme
hydrologic events. This report describes a system of computer programs designed to display current information from a hydrologic alert network.
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Sponsored and Organized by: U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, The University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology
Date
1993-04
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