Deserts of the World Credits

Overview of Deserts

Soils

Vegetation

Demographics/Population

Livelihood Systems

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Office of Arid Lands Studies

Arid Lands Information Center (content & design)
- Barbara Hutchingson (principal investigator, content)
- Anne Thwaits (web design, content)
- Carla Cassler (content)
- Katherine Waser (content)
Arizona Remote Sensing Center (application design & development, application hosting)
- Stuart Marsh (administration)
- Min-Seong Kang (application & database design, principal programmer)
- Wolfgang Grunberg (application design, web & database administration, programming)
- Yuta "Toby" Torrey (file IO design, programming)
- Aaryn Olsson (programming)
- John Moeller (programming)

Funding

International Arid Lands Consortium

Technology

Deserts of the World is build on the Data Object Warehouse (DOW) application developed by the Arizona Remote Sensing Center. Deserts of the World is programmed in Java, uses Apache Struts to implement a Model Viewer Controller (MVC) architecture, and uses any JDBC compatible Relational Database Management System - SQL Server 2000 in this case.

Additional Credits

Select icons where provided by Mark James (http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/)

What is Java?

Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. The language, which was designed to be platform independent, is a derivative of C++ with a simpler syntax, a more robust runtime environment and simplified memory management. (wikipedia.org)

What is MVC?

Model-view-controller (MVC) is a software architecture that separates an application's data model, user interface, and control logic into three distinct components so that modifications to one component can be made with minimal impact to the others. (wikipedia.org)