Site Credits

Content

Members of the Western Rangelands Partnership from 19 Western states.

Western Rangelands Parternship Officers

Chair, Karen Launchbaugh, University of Idaho
Vice Chair, Carla Long Casler, University of Arizona
Secretary, Norm Harris, University of Alaska

Website Development

Arid Lands Information Center (content & design)
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)
- Anne Thwaits (interface design, XHTML, CSS)

Technology

Rangelands West is build on the Data Object Warehouse (DOW) application developed by the Arizona Remote Sensing Center. Rangelands West 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?