FLEX/MapServer application for the Brazilian Industrial Fishing Vessels Monitoring Program

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FLEX/MapServer application for the Brazilian
Industrial Fishing Vessels Monitoring Program

• Felipe Luiz Pereira
• Carlos Henrique Bughi
• Rafael Medeiros Sperb
• Itajaí Valley University Brazil

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The Brazilian Industrial Fishing Vessels
Monitoring Program

• Began in 2005 after a 5 years pilot program
• Every vessel that measures more than 15 meters in
  length must be tracked
• RASTRO is the information system developed to
  support the program operation.

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What is it?

• RASTRO receivestracking data viaWebservices
  (SOA)
• It presents tracking data through WebMapping
• It provides several functions to support
  surveillance and decision making.

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Architecture

• RASTROs
  architecture is
  entirely based on
  
  FOSS.
• OS Unix, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Apache, PHP,
  Symfony, Ka-Map and MapServer...

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Problem

• Memory (Stack-over-flow) and Tiling didnt work
  well
• Bad performance
• The solution was to develop an interface on Adobe
  Flash, with exchange of information through XML

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Concearns

• It did perform well, but
• It was not FOSS
• Adobe Flash is more oriented to Animation
• We believe we could improve performance using
  Adobe Flex SDK Free.

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FLEX PHP MapServer
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Flex XML
Slices!
Request Response
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Demontration

• http//www.preps.gov.br/web/index.php/login/login

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Conclusions

• Ups
• Fast interface development
• Allow
• local data handling (client side)
• Easy development of user friendly interfaces
• Adobe Flex SDK Free.
• Downs
• Needs recent versions of Flash Player Plugin
  (client side)
• Not OGC compliant (will be in the new version).

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Thanks you!

• Questions?
• Contacts
• Felipe Luiz Pereira fpereira_at_univali.br
• Carlos Henrique Bughi bughi_at_univali.br
• Rafael Medeiros Sperb rsperb_at_univali.br