Building the GCOOS:Integration of Data

Dr. Matthew Howard

GCOOS-RA Annual Meeting of the Parties & Board of Directors

25-26 February 2009Orlando, FL

Data Portal

Data Portal Main Page

Satellite Data Overlay

Station Information – Links to Provider Sites

Station Status Monitoring Page

Automatic KML File Production – Google Oceans

Pages for Satellite and Model Output

Data Access Page – CSV ASCII

Direct Call by URL

Sensor Observation Service Access

Data Portal Documentation

Data Portal Next Steps

• Products-Products-Products!– Data formats (NetCDF, GIS compatible, others)– Graphical displays of inventory, data, metrics– To meet prioritized stakeholder, E/O, GOMA needs

• Additional Data Streams– Federal NDBC,USGS, VOS, NWS, etc.– NERRS, GOMA, EPA others.

• Beautify– Tailored views (fishermen)– Tailored delivery – RSS? Smart-phones?

Move to GCOOS.ORG siteMove to GCOOS.ORG site

Local Data Nodes

Local Data Nodes:Designed To harmonize the data systems of

non-federal Providers

• Funded at $300K/yr (12 shares)– ( = 1 man month programmer’s time per node)

• T1: Host machine-harvested sensor lists• T2: Offer data via OGC Web Service• T3: Attend two interoperability events• T4: Agree on a Common Vocabulary

Tasks

Accomplishments

• All Nodes are participating in ObsRegistry– Soon all nodes will generate these files

automatically for up to the moment accuracy

• Many nodes have deployed a Sensor Observation Service (SOS) Web Service

• Most selected the OOSTethys SOS• We expect the need to make continual changes

• SECOORA Common Data Language Selected

Interoperability Events 2008

• 2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting (Mar 2008 Orlando, FL)

• Ocean Observing Systems Planning for Interoperability (OOSPI) Workshop (Aug 2008 – Huntsville, AL)

• World Summit Ocean Observing Systems (Oct 2008 St. John’s NL)

• Ocean Observing Systems Semantic Interoperability (OOSSI)(Nov 2008, Boulder, CO)

• American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (Dec 2008 San Francisco)

13 GCOOS Attendees at OOSPI Huntsville

GCOOS Web Site

http://GCOOS.ORG

GCOOS Communications Forums

GCOOS Calendar Pages

GCOOS News Pages

GCOOS.ORG Next Steps

• Migrate old web site content to new web site• Update-Update-Update• Search capabilities

Interconnections with IOOS DMACDIF, Other RAs

Keeping in Touch

• We have frequent interactions with SECOORA• We interact with CaRa• We interact with NDBC and NCDDC• Howard on IOOS DMAC Steering Team• Howard/Walker/Cermack are steering team

for March 11-12 NOAA DIF Regional Implementation Team Meeting.

• We keep in touch with OOSTethy’s, Q2O, MMI

Discussion