1. www.hdfgroup.org The HDF Group Exploiting HDF5 Technologies to Represent Geo-Information An Example with Complex Terrain Data September 28-30, 2010HDF and HDF-EOS Workshop XIV1 Peter Cao, Jacob Grubar, Mike Folk The HDF Group

2. www.hdfgroup.org Acknowledgment This work was funded by US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC), BAA Contract No. W9132V-08-C-0028 Special thanks to John Nedza of ERDC- TEC, whose ideas are the basis for this work. September 28-30, 2010HDF and HDF-EOS Workshop XIV2

3. www.hdfgroup.org Goals of This Study September 28-30, 2010HDF and HDF-EOS Workshop XIV3 Explore a unified data model for information retrieval, visualization, and analysis Identify the role that HDF5 can play as a data management platform for Battlefield operations Demonstrate the use of web-based tools in combination with HDF5 to organize and work with a wide range of operational data

4. www.hdfgroup.org The HDF Group HDF5 Capabilities September 28-30, 2010HDF and HDF-EOS Workshop XIV4

5. www.hdfgroup.org Variety and Scale Copyright © 2010 The HDF Group. All Rights Reserved5 lat | lon | temp ----|-----|----- 12 | 23 | 3.1 15 | 24 | 4.2 17 | 21 | 3.6 Experiment Notes: Serial Number: 99378920 Date: 3/13/09 Configuration: Standard 3

6. www.hdfgroup.org Relationships Copyright © 2010 The HDF Group. All Rights Reserved6 lat | lon | temp ----|-----|----- 12 | 23 | 3.1 12 | 23 | 3.1 15 | 24 | 4.2 15 | 24 | 4.2 17 | 21 | 3.6 17 | 21 | 3.6 / Parameters 10;100;1000 Timestep 36,000

7. www.hdfgroup.org September 28-30, 2010HDF and HDF-EOS Workshop XIV7 Demo Uses Qt user interface framework as a web-browser plugin Demo will focus on: Heterogeneous Information Layers Dynamic Data Management Multidimensional Scales Scalable Data Structures