Web-based spatio-temporal display of NC DETECT surveillance data

OBJECTIVE Managers of the NC DETECT [1] surveillance system wanted to augment standard tabular Web-based access with a Web-based spatial-temporal interface to allow users to see spatial and temporal characteris tics of the surveillance data. Users need to see spatia l and temporal patterns in the data to help make decision s about events that require further investigation. Th e innovative solution using Adobe® Flash® and Web services to integrate the mapping component with th e backend database will be described in this paper.