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Marine Research Infrastructures updated overview,
European integration and vision of the future
Data centres and management
WP 6 -Task 6.4
D6.4.1_4
October2012
Author: IFREMER (France)
Grant Agreement n° 249552
Acronym: SEAS-ERA
Title: Marine Research Infrastructures updated overview, European integration
and vision of the future – Annex 1 Atlantic region : D6.4_4 Data centres and
management
WP 6: Atlantic region
Task 6.4: Infrastructures in the Atlantic region
Task Leader/Author: J-F Masset, IFREMER
Milestone N°: 6.4.1
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Table of content
1. Introduction
2. Marine data providers
2.1 Marine data providers in Atlantic region, at a glance
2.2 Marine data providers in Atlantic region, per country
3. European integration and vision of the future
3.1 Major European projects
3.2 Vision of the future
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1. Introduction
Several types of activity are necessary to make marine data available to all users of the seas : researchers,
maritime and industrial sectors, policy-makers, public.
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in situ data acquisition => needs a large scope of technology and specific RIs
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data validation and storage => data archives
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data products manufacturing (maps, forecasts, …) => data computing
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data dissemination (from raw data to information products) => data portals
The last 3 items are mostly a data management affair, implemented by software/computing people.
At first, we try to list all the marine data centres, thematic and/or national, for the Atlantic region.
Then, we try to describe all the overarching integration projects and dissemination data portals, mostly at
European level, which rely on these data banks.
2. Marine data providers
Sources :
Seadatanet partnership : http://www.seadatanet.org/Overview/Partners
Geoseas partnership : http://www.geoseas.eu/content/browse_partners.asp?menu=0080000_000000
My Ocean partnership : http://www.myocean.eu/web/10-partner-list.php
2.1 Marine data providers in Atlantic region, at a glance
Country
Marine data providers
Norway
IMR (at National level)
Sweden
SMHI (at National level)
Denmark
DCE (at National level), DMI
Iceland
MRI
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Germany
BSH, AWI, MARUM (PANGAEA)
Netherlands
NODC (incl. 8 Institutes), MARIS
Belgium
MUMM, VLIZ
UK
NERC/BODC (also : NEODC for earth obs. data and BADC for atmospheric data)
Ireland
MI (incl. 5 data banks)
France
IFREMER (SISMER, incl. 11 data banks), SHOM, CLS, MERCATOR, BRGM,
CDG/CNRS, ACRI-ST,
Spain
IEO, ICCM, UTM-CSIC, UB, IGME, ALTAMIRA, PUERTOS, STARLAB
Portugal
IH
2.2 Marine data providers in Atlantic region, per country
Norway :
IMR (Institute of Marine Research) – Research data :
The Institute of Marine Research continuously collects large amounts of data from all Norwegian seas. Data
are collected using vessels, observation buoys, manual measurements, gliders – amongst others.
The Norwegian Marine Data Centre was established as a national data centre for handling of marine
environmental- and fish data, and to present data products. The group’s main activity is to collect secure
quality and store all of the data on marine environment and fish and make the data available for scientists.
http://www.imr.no/forskning/forskningsdata/en
Sweden :
SMHI (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute) – Oceanographic services :
The Oceanographic Laboratory monitors the Baltic Sea, Kattegat and Skagerrak, produces status, changes
and trend descriptions of physical, chemical and some biological parameters as well as reports data and
other information to international organisations and conventions. SMHI experts take part in working groups
within ICES and IOC to define international standards on analyses, data handling and reporting.
SMHI data and products are used in environmental and climate studies, forecasts, for research and for
verification and development of oceanographic models, and at national and international levels.
http://www.smhi.se/sgn0102/nodc/info/info.html
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Denmark :
DCE – Danish Centre for Environment and Energy
DCE runs five scientific data centres for the Danish Ministry of the Environment under NOVANA (the National
Monitoring and Assessment Programme for the Aquatic and Terrestrial Environment), just as DCE carries out
some of the monitoring for NOVANA. The five scientific data centres are located at the Department of
Bioscience and the Department of Environmental Science. Aarhus University thereby ensures synergy
between monitoring and research. http://dce.au.dk/en/monitoring/tasks-of-the-scientific-data-centres/
One of them is the Marine scientific data centre M-FDC (web site in Danish only) :
http://bios.au.dk/videnudveksling/fagdatacentre/fdcmarintny/
NOVANA should support Denmark’s EU obligations as regards monitoring the environment and nature, and
its own national requirements for knowledge about the state of the environment and nature for purposes
such as preparing water and nature plans. As far as possible, the monitoring should also support the
agreements Denmark has entered into regarding international monitoring conventions, including the
HELCOM Convention for the Baltic Sea countries and the OSPAR Convention for the North Sea countries.
The scientific data centres ensure the collection, storage and quality assurance of monitoring data at a
national level. The collected and stored data must be available at all times for all the parties involved in
monitoring for use in national and international reports. The scientific data centres carry out the following
tasks under NOVANA:
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Develop sampling methods
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Prepare technical specifications for sampling and storing data
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Are responsible for nationwide data storage, quality assurance of data and data processing
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Prepare nationwide scientific reports of sub-sections
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Organise inter calibration of sampling procedures and field methods
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Enter into collaboration with the Danish Nature Agency’s scientific coordination groups
DMI Centre for Ocean and Ice (Danish Meteorological Institute)
The heart of the centre's activities are surge warnings, ice charting, waves, ocean currents, satellite
surveillance, ocean climate and marine data. The areas of coverage are the North Sea, the Baltic, the
Greenland, and Faroese waters. The North Atlantic and other selected areas are also covered.
http://ocean.dmi.dk/english/index.php
Iceland :
Maritime research Institute http://www.hafro.is/index_eng.php
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Germany :
BSH (Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie) :
Marine data service : http://www.bsh.de/Vorlagen/ressources/nav_en/navigation2.jsp
AWI / Ocean Data view :
Ocean Data View (ODV) is a software package for the interactive exploration, analysis and visualization of
oceanographic and other geo-referenced profile or sequence data. ODV can display original data points or
gridded fields based on the original data.
MARUM - UNIVERSITAET BREMEN (UniHB) :
The Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) at University Bremen (UniHB), in
collaboration with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), operates PANGAEA®,
the Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data ( www.PANGAEA.de ) as a permanent
facility, partnering in over 50 research projects at national, European and international levels. PANGAEA®
aims at collecting, scrutinising, and
disseminating geo-referenced data about natural and anthropogenic components and functions in
ecosystems at scales ranging from individual organisms, mesoscale features, and oceanic basin to global
planetary scales.
Core services supplied by PANGAEA® are scientific data management, long-term data archiving, data
publication, and data dissemination via visualisation and analysis software and via interoperability with
other European and international data dissemination systems. Datasets published by PANGAEA® are
extremely diverse and include for example water column profiles, sediment core profiles, biogeographic
distributions, meteorological and oceanographic time series, vital rate measurements on individual
organisms or communities, sea bed photographs, audio and video records, and ROV surveys. PANGAEA®
integrates biological data on plankton, fish, corals, micro-, meio- and macrobenthos, marine mammals and
birds. In addition to contemporary observations we offer an extensive paleobiogeographic record from
marine sediment cores. Biological data include key biodiversity parameters such as taxon-specific abundance
and biomass, and also an extensive range of parameters describing the life history and vital rates of marine
life.
Netherlands :
The National Oceanographic Data Committee (NODC) of the Netherlands is the national platform for
exchange of oceanographic and marine data and information, and for advisory services in the field of ocean
and marine data management. http://www.nodc.nl/
The overall objectives of the NODC are:
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to arrange that high quality oceanographic and marine data are made available to a large community
of users in an effective way;
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to lower the barriers for exchange of oceanographic data between the NODC partners
Members : The National Oceanographic Data Committee (NODC) of the Netherlands is joined by the
following institutes:
Rijkswaterstaat Waterdienst
Rijkswaterstaat Data-ICT-Dienst
TNO Bouw & Ondergrond
Deltares
IMARES
NIOZ - Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Zeeonderzoek
Nederlands Instituut voor Ecologisch Onderzoek-Centrum voor Estuariene en
Mariene Ecologie (NIOO-CEME)
Dienst der Hydrografie van de Koninklijke Marine (Hyd)
These institutes have signed the updated NODC Cooperation Agreement, dated 9th April 2009, that
determines the objectives, activities, organisation and funding of the NODC.
MARIS :
MARIS B.V. is a private company located in Voorburg (the Netherlands). MARIS develops web based services
and applications in the fields of oceanographic datamanagement, geographical interfaces and websites with
complex information structures. MARIS is advisor to the NODC.
Belgium :
MUMM - Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) :
The Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models and the Scheldt estuary, abbreviated to
MUMM, is a department of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), a federal scientific
establishment that comes under the Federal Science Policy (previously known as OSTC).
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MUMM is setting up tools to receive, manage, store and circulate marine data. These developments
complement the 'ODAS' database (Oceanographic Data Acquisition System) which is basically intended to
store the data constantly acquired by the Belgica or obtained through anchored instruments of MUMM.
http://www.mumm.ac.be/EN/Monitoring/DataCenter/index.php
The data stored at MUMM primarily concern the zone of the Belgian continental shelf and the Scheldt
estuary and cover the past thirty years.
http://www.mumm.ac.be/datacentre/
Flemish Marine Data and Information Centre (FMDC) - VLIZ :
It is a young and modern data centre that archives data and information pursuant to the latest international
standards (IODE) and furthermore puts this data and information at the disposal of scientists and policy
makers.
The FMDC is mainly a service centre. Within the scope of numerous cooperation projects the centre provides
expertise and logistic support for the development of data and information systems, the archiving of
datasets, the communication of projects (e.g. developing and hosting websites), ... The FMDC is specialised
in the development of information systems, taxonomic and biogeographic databases as well as databases
that collect monitoring and survey data.
http://www.vliz.be/EN/Data_Centre/Data_Centre_intro
UK :
NERC - BODC (British Oceanographic Data Centre) :
A national facility for preserving and distributing marine data , to process, archive and distribute biological,
chemical, physical and geophysical data. Databases contain measurements of nearly 22,000 different
variables. Data are documented and stored for current and future use. http://www.bodc.ac.uk/
NERC - NEODC (Earth Observation Data Centre) :
The NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) is a Designated Data Centre of the NERC and as such it is
tasked with the acquisition, archiving and provision of access to remotely sensed data of the surface of the
Earth acquired by satellite and airborne sensors.
http://www.neodc.rl.ac.uk/
STFC- BADC (British Atmospheric Data Centre) :
The British Atmospheric Data Centre supplies meterological and other atmospheric data to the scientific
community. It also provides a long-term archive for data collected by NERC-funded research. Data suppliers
include the UK Meterological Office, the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts and NASA.
http://www.stfc.ac.uk/RALSpace/Areas+of+expertise/Data+Management/British+Atmospheric+Data+Centre
+%28BADC%29/18426.aspx
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Ireland :
Maritime Institute – Ocean Science services :
Data Services available include access to online data sources on a range of topics including weather buoy
data, Harmful Algal Bloom test result data, mapping services and temperature monitoring.
http://www.marine.ie/home/publicationsdata/
Irish Marine Web Mapping Services
This website provides direct access to mapping data
available from the Marine Institute.
Website: www.maps.marine.ie
INFOMAR - Mapping the Irish Seabed
The Irish National Seabed Survey is a collaboration between
the Geological Survey of Ireland and the Marine Institute to
map Ireland’s 900,000 sq km continental shelf. Maps from the
survey to date can be queried on line.
Website: http://www.gsiseabed.ie/
Marine Data Online
The Irish Spatial Data Exchange and the Marine Institute’s
Metadata Portal provide a discovery service for spatial
datasets, including marine datasets (e.g. biological, chemical
and physical datasets). Biological databases include
information on fish species, abundance, geographic
distribution and population dynamics collected as part of
ongoing Groundfish Surveys, Acoustic Surveys, Nephrops
Underwater Television Surveys, the Egg and Mackerel Surveys
and Deepwater Surveys. These fisheries databases focus on
fish catch statistics and biological measurements of various
parameters.
ISDE: www.marine.ie/isde/
MI Metadata Portal: www.marine.ie/home/publicationsdata
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MIDA: Irish Marine Digital Atlas
The MIDA digital atlas is a comprehensive resource for
coastal and marine information and spatial data in Ireland.
Website: http://mida.ucc.ie
Marine SACs and Archaeology
Marine Designated Areas Website: www.npws.ie/en
National Shipwreck Inventory:
www.archaeology.ie/en/ShipwreckDatabase
Oblique Coastal Imagery Database
www.coastalhelicopterview.ie/imf5104/imf.jsp?site=Helicopter
France :
Ifremer - SISMER (Systèmes d'Informations Scientifiques pour la Mer) :
http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/index_UK.htm
SISMER is the Designated National Oceanographic Data Centre for France (French NODC) for the
International Oceanographic Data Exchange program (IODE) of UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission. The Data Centre manages the National Oceanographic Data Banks of different disciplines. The
data are collected by the French scientific community or in cooperation with other countries, on board the
Research Fleet, or by using common autonomous observing systems, in the frame of national and
international projects.
Marine national data banks include :
Marine geophysics
http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/program/geophys/geow3_UK.htm
Marine physics and http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/program/phys/donoceph_UK.htm
chemistry
Coriolis
Operational
Oceanography
– http://www.coriolis.eu.org/
Previmer – Coastal http://www.previmer.org/
operational
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oceanography
Geographical data
http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/UK/banquesnat/donnees_cartographiques_UK.htm
Coastal
environment
http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/UK/banquesnat/ifremer_environnement_cotier_UK.htm
Biocean / benthic http://www.ifremer.fr/biocean/
biology
SIH (Fisheries)
SHOM /
currents
http://www.ifremer.fr/sih/affichagePageStatique.do?page=sih/sih.htm
Tides, http://www.shom.fr/fr_page/fr_act_oceano/maree/prediction_2011.htm
CETMEF / Waves
http://candhis.cetmef.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/
CERSAT / Satellites http://www.ifremer.fr/cersat/en/index.htm
data
Ifremer - CORIOLIS infrastructure : a specific role for operational oceanography
http://www.coriolis.eu.org/
The institutes involved in operational oceanography in France (CNES, CNRS, Ifremer, IPEV, IRD, MétéoFrance, Shom) decided in 2001 to joint their efforts within Coriolis in order to:
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organise and maintain data acquisition in real-time and delayed mode of in-situ measurements
necessary for operational oceanography,
set up an operational in-situ data centre,
develop and improve the technology necessary for operational oceanography.
The in-situ data centre mission : Coriolis is an assembly centre that collects data from the main global ocean
observing networks as well as from agencies operating observing systems in Europe. Data are obtained from
a wide variety of platforms: floats, buoys, research vessels, ships of opportunity, drifters, gliders, sea
mammals... and providers (including scientists, national data centres, satellite data centres and operational
agencies). They come in very different forms, from a single variable measured at a single point to
multivariate, four dimensional collections of data that can represent data volumes from a few bytes to
gigabytes. The quality of these data is controlled within 24 hours using internationally agreed procedures
and distributed in an agreed standard (speaking the same language) to the main ocean forecasting centres in
France (Mercator-Ocean, Soap/Shom) and Europe (GMES Marine Core Service), and to the international
community. Yearly high quality products are provided to the research community.
Coriolis also coordinates the French contribution to the international Argo project and deploys about 65
floats per year, and develop and improve the technology necessary for operational oceanography.
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SHOM (SERVICE HYDROGRAPHIQUE ET OCEANOGRAPHIQUE DE LA MARINE) :
SHOM’s vocation is to guarantee the quality and availability of information describing the physical maritime,
coastal and ocean environment. To do so, SHOM coordinates the collection of data at sea – in particular data
related to bathymetry, hydrology, and sea level in coastal areas-, develops and operates real time oceanic
nowcast/forecast systems, stores and disseminates data in order to meet public, military and civilian
requirements. SHOM has three main missions: national hydrographic service, Defence service and support to
government maritime policies. http://www.shom.fr/
CLS (Collecte Localisation satellites) :
CLS operates and/or processes data from more than 80 instruments on board nearly 40 satellites. CLS
expertise covers every link in the data processing chain from data collection through to development of
technologies and custom applications.
CLS and its expert staff are completely proficient in the following areas:
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Receiving, processing and distribution environmental satellite data
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Validating and combining data issued from a wide range of on-board satellite instruments
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Engineering
http://www.cls.fr/welcome_en.html
Mercator Ocean
Mercator is the French Operational Oceanography Centre. Since January 2001, Mercator Ocean has been
developing and running operational systems able to describe, to monitor and to forecast the ocean at any
location in the world, from the deep ocean to the surface. Mercator Ocean offers high level products and
services to users thanks to its complex ocean forecast 3D models as well as its skilful human expertise for
model assessment and ocean forecast.
CDG (Centre de Données Géophysiques) / CNRS - Université de Strasbourg
The Center of Archiving and Seismic Treatment ensures the filing and the diffusion of the data ECORS and
Marine Geosciences, and supplies the French scientific community of earth sciences with the resources
necessary to the seismic data processing. It is the French center of diffusion of data SDLS (Antarctic Seismic
Data Library System for cooperative research) of program ANTOSTRAT of the SCAR (Scientific Committee on
Antarctic Research). It is partner of project SEISCAN of digitalization and diffusion of the seismic paper data
in the European marine zones (project MAST 3). The CATS was set up in the context of the project IDYL
(Imagery and Dynamics of the Lithosphere) of the CNRS/INSU; it is in line with the objective to archive in a
more coherent way, to better supply the scientific community with the data ECORS, Lithoscope, GPS,
imagery SPOT, digital models, drillings GPF, marine seismic, magnetic and aeromagnetic surveys, GEOSCOPE,
accelerometry, permanent observatories... The CATS is supported by the GeoFrance3D program.
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ACRI-ST
ACRI-ST is an R/D team based in south of France, at Sophia-Antipolis, specialised in applied mathematics,
geophysics and numerical modelling for environmental information services :
water quality (Ocean colour) , coastal areas (Coastwatch, real time data), MERIS/MODIS images and
products, …
Spain :
IEO Marine data centre
In 1964 was established the Spanish Center of Oceanographic Information, in the frame of the System of
National Centers of Oceanographic Information (NODCs) created by the Oceanographic Intergovernmental
Commission (COI). The Center of Information of the IEO is integrated to different networks(nets) of
international information, being a common aim(lens) of all of them, the development of standards of
formats, and protocols of control that facilitates the exchange and integration of information so that there
has been possible the production(elaboration) of products of regional and global area.
The development of new instrumentation of capture of information and the new technologies of the
information, as well as the demand(lawsuit) of information in almost royal(real) time and the diversity of
institutions with responsibility in this matter, needs a new strategy in what concerns the management of the
information and information. This way recently, NODCs's committee I constitute a commission to analyze
the situation and to carry out the necessary structure in the program " International Exchange of
Oceanographic Information " (IODE). Nevertheless, a topic that must be solved to institutional and national
level is the production(elaboration) of a regulation that regularizes the rights and the obligations of the
generators of the information and information as well as the conditions of use of the above mentioned
information.
ICCM (Instituto Canario de Ciencias Marinas),Canarias :
Operational Oceanography room and data processing
Parameters : Spectral distribution of Radiances and Reflectances, Sea Surface Temperature, Active
Photosynthetic Radiation, Chlorophyll -a- concentration, suspended solids, Aerosols optical thickness,
Amgstroeng exponent, sea surface wind speed, hydrocarbon spillages detection.
http://iccmoceanography.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=41:operationaloceanography-room-and-data-processing&catid=11:infraestructuras
UTM-CSIC :
UTM-CSIC/Information Systems Group is responsible for the Data Management, Data Analysis and Data QC
processes of all data acquisition systems placed on-board the Spanish Research Council vessels and Antarctic
stations. UTM-CSIC is also involved in several initiatives to reach a common oceanographic data acquisition
and dissemination framework.
http://www.utm.csic.es/
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UB (Barcelona University), Department of Stratigraphy, Paleontology and Marine Geosciences
Among others, the research programs of the Department of Stratigraphy, Paleontology and Marine
Geosciences are involved in studies of :
- Analysis of the sedimentary record,
- Marine Geosciences,
- Marine paleobiological record,
- Contienetal paleobiological record and
- Stratigraphy nomenclature and terminology.
IGME (Geological and miner Spanish Institute), Marine Geology Service
The IGME'S departments, specialized in various fields of activity, its project offices and laboratories provide
professional and technical assistance, applied research and technological development in specific fields such
as Geology, Environment, Hydrogeology, Mineral Resources, Natural risks, and land use planning.
The Marine Geology Service is working in a systematic program of Geological Mapmaking of the Spanish
continental margins and adjacent zones with the development of geophysical prospecting and sampling.
ALTAMIRA INFORMATION
ALTAMIRA INFORMATION is an Earth Observation company providing ground movement measurements
with millimetric precision and mapping solutions using satellite images. For every measurement point, a time
series chart is generated, visualising the evolution of ground motion over time. Radar image processing
enables the creation of different mapping products, with high value added especially in cloudy or remote
areas. Alone or merged with optical imagery, they provide 2D or 3D information for specific thematics.
PUERTOS DEL ESTADO
Oceanography and meteorology data provider, including wave forecast.
STARLAB
STARLAB products and services :
Oceanpal provides sea level and significant wave height using Global Navigation Satellite Systems signals like
GPS and GALILEO.
Star Jelly : a jellyfish likelihood information service
Strawater : a web-based information service for water quality monitoring using satellite images over beach
areas.
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Portugal :
IH : Hydrographic data http://www.hidrografico.pt/
Tides
Previsão Marés
Waves
Agitação Marítima
Nautical maps
Cartografia Náutica
Sea-floor sediments maps
Carta dos Sedimentos
Digital maps
MDT
Meteo-ocean climate
Climatologia
Oceans Geographical Information System
SIGOCEANOS
3. European integration and vision of the future
3.1 Major European projects
SEADATANET (A Pan-European Infrastructure for Ocean and Marine Data Management) :
(FP6-INFRA-I3, April 2006- March 2011, http://www.seadatanet.org/ )
The follow-up SEADATANET II is currently under negotiation.
SeaDataNet brings together a unique group of major
institutes and marine data centres from countries
bordering the North-East Atlantic, and its adjacent seas:
the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, the Baltic, the North
Sea and the Arctic:
National Oceanographic Data Centres, Designated
National Agencies for international data exchange and
Satellite Data Centres represent the backbone of the
marine data and information infrastructure. They are
skilled in management and added value services on a
wide range of marine information and data, in physical
oceanography, marine biology and marine chemistry and
currently manage the data management structure of
several research programmes.
Research laboratories and modelling centres, contribute
to the development of value added products necessary
to SeaDataNet users.
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The SeaDataNet partnership include also International
Organisations contributing to networking and research
activities.
GEO-SEAS : A Pan-European Infrastructure for Marine and Ocean Geological and Geophysical Data
(FP7-I3 e-infra, May 2009-Oct. 2012, Project web site : http://www.geo-seas.eu/ )
Geo-Seas is implementing an e-infrastructure of 26 marine geological and geophysical data centres, located
in 17 European maritime countries. Users are enabled to identify, locate and access pan-European,
harmonised and federated marine geological and geophysical datasets and derived data products held by
the data centres through a single common data portal.
Geo-Seas is expanding the existing SeaDataNet marine and ocean data management infrastructure to
handle marine geological and geophysical data, data products and services, creating a joint infrastructure
covering both oceanographic and marine geoscientific data.
MY OCEAN : Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting (GMES Marine Core Service) :
( FP7-SPACE (GMES Core Services) , janv 2009-march 2012, Project web site : http://www.myocean.eu.org/)
The follow-up MY OCEAN II is currently under negotiation.
In anticipation of the GMES Marine Service, MyOcean is working towards deploying a strong and reliable
capacity for Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting in Europe. The MyOcean objective to offer a sole,
homogeneous and interoperable system for the provision of ocean observation and forecast is making good
progress through regular improvement phases.
Main features of My Ocean :
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to mix in situ data and remote sensing ones through modellings, in a near real-time process,
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to propose nowcast and forecast data,
MyOcean now offers 215 products out of which 85% can be downloaded from the on line catalogue.
Parameters :
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Wind
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Currents
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Sea ice
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Sea level
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Temperature
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Salinity
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Biogeochemistry (through remote sensing and in situ optic instruments)
Current limits : due to instruments technology compatible with in-situ measurements of other parameters,
as regard a near-real time data service.
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i-MARINE e-infrastructure
http://www.i-marine.eu/_common/iMarine/iMARINE_Overview_vFinal.pdf
iMarine is an initiative to establish and operate an e-infrastructure supporting the principles of the
Ecosystem Approach to fisheries management and conservation of marine living resources. By empowering a
Community of Practice of scientists, practitioners, managers and fishers, iMarine will establish an open data
infrastructure to provide the necessary support to a concrete implementation of the Ecosystem Approach
to Fishery. The Ecosystem Approach relies on a set of knowledge and data sources much broader than that
used in conventional and fishery management and conservation. The monitoring and assessment of target,
emblematic or vulnerable species needs to be broadened to cover species assemblages, communities,
habitats, and ecosystems, and to cover fisheries’ impacts on all goods and services offered by those
ecosystems.
EMODNET (European Marine Observation and Data Network) :
DG-Mare
The European Commission, in its EU's Maritime Policy Blue Book, undertook to take steps towards an
European Marine Observation and Data Network in order to improve availability of high quality marine
data. The Commission undertook to prepare by 2009 an EU action plan to make progress in this area on the
basis of a road map :
http://ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/pdf/roadmap_emodnet_en.pdf
Basic design principles of EMODNET :
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collect data once and use it many times,
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develop standards across disciplines as well as within them,
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process and validate data at different levels. Structures are already developing at national level but
infrastructure at sea-basin and European level is needed,
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provide sustainable financing at an EU level so as to extract maximum value from the efforts of
individual Member States,
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build on existing efforts where data communities have already organised themselves,
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develop a decision-making process for priorities that is user-driven,
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accompany data with statements on ownership, accuracy and precision,
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recognise that marine data is a public good and discourage cost-recovery pricing from public bodies.
The "proof of concept" of EMODNET is being tested through preparatory actions. Portals for a number of
maritime basins are being set up for hydrographic, geological, biological and chemical data as well as
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functional habitat maps. A portal on physical data is on progress. These portals provide access to marine
data of a standard format and known quality and identify gaps in coverage.
Preparatory actions
Hydrographic parameters :
MARE/2008/03 Lot 1, july 2009-june 2012
Hydrography 2 – Seabed mapping
MARE/2009/07 : june 2010- may 2013
The geographical coverage includes (Atlantic
region) :
pilot portals
http://www.emodnet-hydrography.eu/
Users have access to the following geographical
information system layers:
- water depth in gridded form over whole of
maritime basin on a grid of at least quarter a
- the Greater North Sea, including the Kattegat
minute of longitude and latitude
and stretches of water such as Fair Isle,
Cromarty, Forth, Forties,Dover, Wight, and - water depth in vector form with isobaths at a
scale of at least one to one million
Portland
- the English Channel and Celtic Seas
- depth profiles along tracklines
- Iberian Coast and Bay of Biscay (Atlantic Ocean) - coastlines
- underwater features
obstructions etc
-
wrecks,
seabed
Geological parameters :
http://www.emodnet-geology.eu/
MARE/2008/03 Lot 2, july 2009-june 2012
The geographical coverage includes (Atlantic The geology data available includes:
region) :
- sea-bed sediments
- Greater North Sea,
- sea-floor geology
- Celtic Sea.
-boundaries and faults
- rates of coastal erosion or accumulation
- geological events
earthquakes etc.)
(submarine
slides,
- minerals
Chemical parameters
MARE/2008/03 Lot 3, july 2009-june 2012
The geographical coverage includes (Atlantic
region) :
- Greater North Sea
http://www.emodnetchemistry.eu/portal/portal/
EMODNET Chemical pilot is focused on the
marine data groups of chemicals required for
monitoring the Marine Strategy Directive:
synthetic
compounds
antifoulants, pharmaceuticals),
(i.e. pesticides,
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- heavy metals,
- radionuclides;
- fertilisers and other nitrogen- and phosphorusrich substances;
- organic matter
mariculture);
(e.g.
from
sewers
or
- hydrocarbons including oil pollution.
Biological parameters
http://bio.emodnet.eu/
MARE/2008/03 Lot 4, july 2009-june 2012
The geographical coverage includes (Atlantic Data full catalog :
region) :
http://bio.emodnet.eu/component/imis/?modul
e=dataset&show=search
- Greater North Sea, including the Kattegat,
- the English Channel.
- Bay of Biscay
- Iberian coast
-…
http://www.emodnet-physics.eu/
Physical parameters
MARE/2010/02, Proposal submitted 20 july 2010,
accepted nov. 2010
The geographical coverage includes (Atlantic Users will get access to the following types of
region) :
measurements:
- wave height and period (fixed stations
- the Greater North Sea, including the Kattegat,
- temperature of the water column (fixed stations
and ferryboxes)
- the English Channel (ROOS NWS – North West
Shelf – and SeaDataNet)
- wind speed and direction (fixed stations)
- the Celtic Sea (ROOS IBI and SeaDataNet)
- salinity of the water column (fixed stations and
ferryboxes)
- the Bay of Biscay and the Iberian Coast (ROOS
- horizontal velocity of the water column (fixed
IBI and SeaDataNet)
stations)
- in the Atlantic Ocean, the Macronesian biogeographic region, being the waters surrounding light attenuation (fixed stations)
the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands
(Coriolis and SeaDataNet), and Cape Verde (E - sea level (fixed stations)
subtropical Atlantic) - - North Atlantic (including
Porcupine Abyssal Plain, Central Irminger Basin,
Norvegian Sea)
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EUSEAMAP : Mapping European seabed habitats
http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-5040
MARE/2008/07, july 2009-june 2012
MESH ATLANTIC : Mapping European Seabed Habitats
Atlantic
http://www.meshatlantic.eu/index.php?id=110
Interreg IV , janv 2011-dec 2013
EUSeaMap has improved and harmonised predictive benthic habitat layers across the Celtic, North and
Baltic Seas under the EUNIS classification
Preparatory actions are designed to prepare proposals with a view to the adoption of future actions. Based
on the knowledge gathered during this exploratory ur-EMODNET a strategy will be developed for moving
towards a definitive EMODNET, both in the intermediate period 2011-2013 and in the long term after 2014.
European Atlas of the Seas
DG Mare
The atlas is an easy and fun way for students, professionals and anyone interested to learn more about
Europe's seas and coasts, their environment, related human activities and European policies. Source of the
Atlas data: mainly European Commission and agencies.
http://ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/atlas/maritime_atlas/#extent=90.5_15_117.5_84&=null&theme=themeGeography.subthemeIMPSeaBasins
ICES Data Centre :
The ICES data centre accepts a wide variety of marine data and meta-data types into its databases. The data
formats, guidelines and vocabularies are specific to the type of data and whether it is associated with a
marine convention monitoring programme.
http://www.ices.dk/datacentre/Submissions/index.aspx
Type of data :
-
Commercial fish catches
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Trawl survey
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Oceanographic
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Environment
JRC (EC Joint Research Center) -EMIS (Environmental Marine Information System) :
http://emis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/emis_e07cac8c.php
The Environmental Marine Information System (EMIS) offers the possibility of providing spatial and temporal
information supporting the assessment and monitoring of European regional seas like eutrophication
indicators and related physical and biological marine variables (e.g. sea surface temperature, chlorophyll-a
concentration, mixed layer depth, primary production, etc.) derived from satellite remote sensing and/or
numerical modelling. The information system provides a wide set of tools which allows to navigate, browse
and interrogate the map in different ways. This allows the user to perform its own assessment of the status
and trends in the European regional seas or in a marine sub-area of its choice.
The Environmental Marine Information System (EMIS) relies on biological and physical variables generated
from both hydrodynamic models and satellite remote sensing. EMIS has been developed to facilitate access
to these environmental products.
The further developments of the system will also seek synergies with the advancements of the Water
Information System for Europe (WISE) which does not include, at the moment, marine information.
JRC - Ocean Color Data Portal :
http://oceancolour.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ => not longer operational ?
The Global Environment Monitoring Unit is maintaining an archive of ocean colour derived products for the
European seas, over the geographical domain 40W-55E, 10N-80N, and the global ocean. The data sets
include spectra of marine reflectance, concentration of chlorophylla, coefficient of diffuse attenuation,
inherent optical properties (absorption and back-scattering coefficients), aerosol optical thickness and
photosynthetically available radiation. Global primary production distributions are also computed from
these data sets. The products are useful for monitoring water quality and marine ecosystem dynamics, and
for the study of biogeochemical cycles. The marine reflectance is also considered an Essential Climate
Variable. The time series of daily, 8-day and monthly maps are derived from the space sensors SeaWiFS and
MODIS for the period Sep. 1997 to the present. The web site presents an illustration of this data base with
maps of chlorophylla concentration for specific regions covering the European Atlantic sector from the Arctic
to the Cape Verde Islands, the North Sea, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and Caspian Sea, as well
as for the global ocean.
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3.2 Vision of the future
Who is doing what, a need of right articulation and convergence of the on-going initiatives :
SEADATANET : the open and operational network of all thematic/regional marine data centres,
MY OCEAN : the operational oceanography portal, 24h real time data service, forecast, extension to shelf
and coastal seas.
i-MARINE : the initiative to establish and operate an e-infrastructure supporting the principles of the
Ecosystem Approach to fisheries management and conservation of marine living resources.
EMODNET : towards an European public service of marine data for all users, access free
DG Env / Wise Marine : legally-mandated data and indicators for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive
implementation.
=> a specific working group exists for the implementation of the MSFD :
WG on Data, Information and Knowledge Exchange (DIKE)
Articulation/convergence initiatives :
1) Seadatanet proposal to WG DIKE (august 2011) :
From the ongoing developments, achievements, and installed relationships it should be concluded that the
SeaDataNet infrastructure including the associated EurOBIS and ICES infrastructures as backbone for the
data management component of the EMODNet infrastructure are well qualified for organising, quality
control and quality assurance, and giving harmonised access to ocean and marine data sets acquired by
multiple data providers in Europe.
This infrastructure could manage and provide the basic data sets that are input and reference for the GES
reporting information that will be managed by the WISE-MARINE infrastructure. Exchange between
EMODNet and WISE-MARINE could be organised by customising the machine-to-machine interfacing that
are planned for development in the SeaDataNet II project. This could also establish the mechanisms of
regional data pools for each of the Conventional regions.
SeaDataNet II will work on full INSPIRE compliance which will ensure that efforts undertaken by
SeaDataNet data providers will make their data holdings also fit for INSPIRE. From the analysis it appears
that further developments, customising and additional data population will be required for the
infrastructure to be ready and fit for purpose for MSFD implementation.
The basic technical requirements will be largely covered by the SeaDataNet II project. For the MSFD
customising, getting more data and data providers into the infrastructure, getting a full European coverage,
establishing the interfacing to WISE-MARINE, and defining an organisational structure, data policy
arrangements, and future funding requirements in agreement with EEA, EU, Regional Conventions and
Member States considerable additional work is required. This could be the scope of the forthcoming Call for
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Tender that EU DG MARE is planning early 2012 for the next phase of the EMODNet Chemistry and Biology
pilots and for which funding is already in place.
Therefore it is proposed to WG DIKE:
1. To agree with adopting the wider SeaDataNet infrastructure as mechanism for managing and giving
access to basic data sets required for the MSFD implementation.
2. To agree with a further analysis and development of the infrastructure for MSFD purposes in a
cooperation of WISE-MARINE with the SeaDataNet II and EMODNet Chemistry and Biology pilot
teams with regular reporting to WG DIKE in the frame of the next EMODNet phase.
2) Memorandum of Understanding MyOcean / SeaDataNet :
A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed on 13 January 2010 between MyOcean and SeaDataNet.
Its acknowledges these two projects are very complementary, expresses the strong will to collaborate and
summarizes collaboration topics. In addition, this memorandum of understanding improves the links which
SeaDataNet already established with EuroGoos and its regional organizations. A second document describes
in more details the Common vision on marine data flow and services between the two projects, the involved
actors and the provided services by both projects.
In perspective : an integration of EUROGOOS as a common advisory board for the MoU implementation.
3) GISC recommendations
(GMES in-situ coordination, expert group coordinated by EEA) : Deliverable 2.2 and 2.4 (July 2012) :
http://gisc.ew.eea.europa.eu/gisc-project/deliverables/d-2.2-and-2.4-introduction.docx-1
MyOcean INS TAC (Thematic Archiving Centre for in-situ data) is an essential data management component,
fully integrated within the existing GMES marine core service MyOcean/II. Development priorities are :
o
Sustain the INS-TAC distributed system within MyOcean I and II infrastructure, to fulfil the needs of
both GMES marine core and downstream services for ROOSs and European countries.
o
Encourage an open and free data policy within the ROOSs
o
Develop data management activities for core bio-geochemical observations, this would however
require additional funding available in MyOcean at the present
o
Collaborate with other projects in order to consolidate Data Exchange System for EuroGOOS and fill
gaps :
–
Handle Coastal Real Time data for JERICO
–
Connect to the EMODNET portal for near real time data access for some data sets
–
Work with GROOM to be able to integrate in a sustained manner European Glider data in
the Global component of the INS TAC
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