Implementation Plan - System Design

National oceanic and atmospheric administration (NOAA)

The Exa team led the effort to migrate a large volume of historic sediment, tissue, and bioassay data from a legacy desktop platform to a web-based platform for the Assessment and Restoration Division (ARD) of NOAA. The historic environmental data were stored in a MS™ FoxPro-based relational database integrated with a custom program to query and display the data (NOAA’s Query Manager). Due to the large volume of data collected, the nationwide geographic range of the data, and the need for querying across sites, a robust, integrated structure was developed using a server-based database (e.g., Oracle™ MySQL). The requirement was that the structure and data flow procedures would enable support of both the Query Manager application, as well as the web-based system for serving and mapping the data (Data Integration Visualization Exploration and Reporting; DIVER).