Web-Based Tools for Environmental Data
- LLNL
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has pursued an aggressive site characterization and remediation program since the early 1980's. The effort has required drilling and sampling over 1000 wells. The development of tools for interacting with the large volume of data is imperative. Working closely with interdisciplinary project scientists, we have developed a suite of web-based tools for facilitating many data-driven analysis and interpretation tasks. LLNL tool development must meet the needs of several different groups: LLNL project staff, DOE project managers, and government regulators. The project managers and regulators require general tools, answering questions such as ''what locations have had detectable amounts of a particular chemical.'' In addition to general inquiries, regulators want specific information, such as reports of volatile organic compound concentrations for an area over time. LLNL users need tools that support analysis and facility operations as well as general inquiry tools. We have developed web-based tools that allow each class of user to obtain much of the information they desire without the assistance of database specialists. While these tools were created for particular classes of users, each tool has proven useful to other groups as well. Providing a web interface to these tools makes them easily accessible regardless of the user's location or computing platform. Cross-linking these tools increases their visibility and enables data exploration. In this paper, we will describe a selection of our web-based tools, illustrating the way we are using the web to facilitate easier and broader access to project data.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Defense Programs (DP) (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 791119
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-JC-136015
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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