Emodnet Physics: Benefits from Marine Data Sharing

Volume 1 - Issue 5

Giuseppe MR Manzella*, Antonio Novellino and Paolo D Angelo

Received: May 22, 2018;   Published: May 29, 2018

DOI: 10.32474/MAOPS.2018.01.000124

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Abstract

Access to marine data is of vital importance for marine research and a key issue for various studies, from climate change prediction to off shore engineering. Giving access to and harmonising marine data from different sources will help industry, public authorities and researchers find the data and make more effective use of them to develop new products, services and improve our understanding of how the seas behave. The European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) is a long term program to deliver a marine observation infrastructure that offers the most effective support to the marine and maritime economy whilst supporting environmental protection needs. The paper is presenting the activities achieved by the EMODnet Physics. EMODnet Physics provides a combined array of services and functionalities (facility for viewing and downloading, dashboard reporting and machine-to-machine communication services) to obtain, free of charge data, meta-data and data products on the physical conditions of European sea basins and oceans. Moreover, the system provides full interoperability with third-party software through WMS services, Web Services and Web catalogues in order to exchange data and products according to the most recent standards.

Keywords: Marine Data Management; Data Portal; Data Services; Interoperability

Abbrevations: CF: Climate and Forecast; IAPB: International Arctic Buoy Programme; IMOS: Integrated Marine Observing System; NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; NetCDF: Network Common Data Form; SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol; WFS: Web Feature Service; WMS: Web Map Service.

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