The browser prototype for the CTBT knowledge base

Conference · Wed Jul 02 04:00:00 EDT 1997

OSTI ID:513513

Armstrong, H M; Keyser, R G

As part of the United States Department of Energy`s (DOE) Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) research and development effort, a Knowledge Base is being developed. This Knowledge Base will store the regional geophysical research results as well as geographic contexual information and make this information available to the Automated Data Processing (ADP routines) as well as human analysts involved in CTBT monitoring. This paper focuses on the initial development of a browser prototype to be used to interactively examine the contents of the CTBT Knowledge Base. The browser prototype is intended to be a research tool to experiment with different ways to display and integrate the datasets. An initial prototype version has been developed using Environmental Systems Research Incorporated`s (ESRI) ARC/INFO Geographic Information System (GIS) product. The conceptual requirements, design, initial implementation, current status, and future work plans are discussed. 4 refs., 2 figs.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 513513
• Report Number(s): SAND--97-1690C; CONF-970967--7; ON: DE97007157
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

35 ARMS CONTROL
45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
COMPUTER GRAPHICS
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
INTERACTIVE DISPLAY DEVICES
NUCLEAR EXPLOSION DETECTION
NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
SPECIFICATIONS
TREATIES
VERIFICATION