Download Australia`s Oceans Policy

Oceans Portal Workshop
th March 2004
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Oceans Portal Project
Healthy oceans: cared for, understood and used wisely
Parashar
for the benefitAmit
of all, now
and in the future healthy
oceans: cared for, understood and use wisely for the
benefit of all, now and in the future healthy
Kim Finney
C.I.O.
National Oceans Office
Background
• National Oceans Office
• Branch of the Department of Environment
and Heritage
• Project Owner: Ian Cresswell
• Project Manager (Core): Amit Parashar
• Project Manager (Outreach): Alicja Mosbauer
Motivations: AOP
• Australia’s Oceans Policy
· Launched in 1998
· Maintenance of healthy and productive
ecosystems
· Science based planning and management
· Economic, environmental, social and cultural
aspirations accommodated through integrated
planning and management
Motivations: Regional Marine
Planning
• Policy driven by science
• NOO is data user, not a data custodian
• Need wide variety of data
· Easy to discover
· Easy to access
· Easy to use
• Project built into first Regional Marine Plan as
a deliverable
Motivations: Regional Marine Planning
Biological & Physical Information
Economic Information
Impacts Information
Indigenous Information
Social & cultural Information
Statutory Information
Motivations: Costs
Project
Output
Cost
National demersal
fish project
Distribution maps &
species database
$670K
National
Invertebrate
datasets
Distribution maps &
species database
$100K
National Sediments
database
Sediments database
$820K
National Bathymetry
Grid
Bathy grid
$250K
National Uses
Mapping
Database and maps
$400K
SST Satellite
Datasets
SST products
$90K
National Fish Uses
Mapping
Distribution maps
and statistics
$500K
> $2.6Million
Most are harvesting
exercises.
Issues:
Discovery of data
Access to data
Standards based
Making it happen
• Key Components:
• Community of Interest
• Marine Information
Infrastructure (MII) :
Catalogue Application
• Exploitation of MII:
Portal Application
• Governance
Community of Interest
• Australian Oceans Data Centre Joint Facility
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Formed in 2004
Virtual, distributed data centre
Board, Technical Committee
Collaborative Heads Agreement
Adoption of Oceans Portal Project as the
necessary infrastructure for AODC JF
Community of Interest
• Oceans Biogeographical Information Systems
· Information management arm of Census of Marine
Life (COML)
· NOO is the chair for COML Australia
· NOO is managers Australia’s OBIS Node,
partnership with CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric
Research
· Biological information
Community of Interest
• Online Zoological Collections of Australian
Museums
· Museums data from all the States in Australia
· Data being provided via OBIS
Marine Community of Interest
Partners
Marine
Catalogue
OBIS
Department of Defence
Australian Institute of
Marine Science
Data
Server
Data
Data
Server
CSIRO Marine
Research
Data
Server
Server
Server
Bureau of Meteorology
Data
Data
Server
Australian Antarctic
Division
Server
Oceans
Portal
Geoscience Australia
Workstation
OZCAM
Virtual Australian Ocean Data Centre Joint Facility
Agency
Data & Service Portrayal Type
NOO
80 Marine Uses Maps national coverage (WMS)
CMR
10 years of SST data from AVHRR thermal imagery around Australia (WMS or WCS)
DoD
Gebco bathy data; Near real time SST data (global); Wave
height climatology, global, monthly (all WMS)
CBM
Bouy and ship obs; Coastal synops stations obs; bathy
profiles; 10S to 50S,100E to160E (WMS & WFS).
AIMS
Daily NOAA AVHRR SST images of GBR including
temp,pressure, wind and clod cover & 30 mins weather obs
from 5 locations along GBR (WMS)
AAD
Marine species, seabirds, marine mammals observation
data below 42 south (WMS)
NOO/CMR
Connection to OBIS (point taxa observation data)
Australian Museum
Connection to OZCAM (point taxa observation data)
GA
Bioregionalisation datasets (1 or 2 as yet un-defined)
BRS
Fish uses maps – catch, gross value, change in effort for all
fishing types (WMS)
Community Participation
• Working Groups:
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Metadata WG
Governance WG
Sea Surface temperature WG
Marine Planner WG
Species Finder WG
Symbology WG
NetCDF WG
Marine Information
Infrastructure
• Information infrastructure
• Standards and processes enforced by
software
• Community Information Models
• Standards: WFS, WMS, WCS and OAI
• Web services
• CubeWerx Registry (ExXML)Marine catalogue
Community of interest
Portal Application
• Tool that exploits information infrastructure
• Provides mapping/discovery of data/data
services
• Web Map Composer (SCO)
Portal
Application
Marine catalogue
Community of interest
Future
• Wide adoption
• More exploitation, ie more applications
Specialist
Your
Community Application
Portal
Application
Marine catalogue
Community of interest
Conclusion
• Ambitious project in that it is genuinely a development
by a “community of interest”.
• Lead the way in developing some key Australian
(international ?) Spatial Data Infrastructure
technologies and standards,
• Requires national and international collaboration,
• Will need to expand partnership once runs are on the
board.
• Catalogue will be accessible by anyone.
• All standards and specifications will be public.