hydrographic and oceanographic data center of the chilean navy (cendhoc)

HYDROGRAPHIC AND OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER OF THE

CHILEAN NAVY (CENDHOC)

Carolina Calvete Maldonado

Head Chilean CENDHOC

Oceanography Department

CENDHOC

CENDHOC began his activities in 1968, depend of the chilean navy.

The main goal of CENDHOC is to hold a complete and validated hydrographic and oceanographic data base of the areas of national’s interest, in order to share it with the national and international scientific community, to support investigation and development project benefiting the country.

CENDHOC

The work area is:

1.- IOC Contact point

CN Mariano Rojas BustosSHOA Director

3.- IODE national coordinator for marine information management

Alexandra Smith Kubierschky Head Librarian, SHOA

2.- IODE national coordinator for data management

Carolina Calvete Maldonado Head CENDHOC, SHOA

NATIONAL CONTACT INFORMATION

4.- Does your country operate an IODE national oceanographic data .centre? If so then provide the full name and address as well as the .name of the Head of that centre.

YES, CENDHOC operate as NODC Head CENDHOC: Carolina Calvete Maldonado, SHOA [email protected]

5.- List other national institutions that manage oceanographic data … . …..in your country. Institutions

DIRECTEMAR (Maritime Authority http:/www.directemar.cl) IFOP (Institute for fisheries promotion http:/www.ifop.cl) INACH (Chilean Antarctic Institute http:/www.inach.cl) INPESCA (Institute of fisheries research http:/www.inpesca.

SERNAPESCA (National fisheries service http:/www.sernapesca.cl) SUBPESCA (Marine Undersecretary http:/www.subpesca.cl)

Universities(UDEC, UACH, UCN, PUCV, UDELMAR, UV, etc.)

NATIONAL DATA AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT CAPACITY

6.- Provide a list of data products and service currently provided by .your IODE NODC (if existing) and other national ocean data centres.

NATIONAL DATA AND INFORMATION PRODUCTS/SERVICES

a) Time series of sea surface temperature (SST), sea level (SL), .........current and.waves in specific locations along the coast of Chile.

b) Digital Data Reports, available on line

c) Statistics of SST and SL, available on line.

d) Oceanographic Atlas, available on line.

Services a) CENDHOC web page. b) Working Group on Data Management and Marine Data …….Management (SHOA Library), depending from (CONA).


http://www.shoa.cl/cendhoc/






7.- List of marine information centres (marine libraries) operating in your country.

a) INACH, Chilean Antarctic Institute.

b) IFOP, Institute for fisheries promotion.

c) SHOA, Hydrographic and oceanographic Service of the chilean . navy.

d) Universities:Valparaíso U. ; Catholic U. Of Valparaíso. ; Antofagasta U.Concepción U. ; Austral U. ; Arturo Prat U. ; Los Lagos U.Chile U.


The principal information products and service are:Scientific publication; Books; Manuals and

Library catalogues.

NATIONAL COORDINATION MECHANISMS

9.- Does your country have a national coastal management plan In December of 1994, the Supreme Decree N°475 stablished the “Chilean

Republic National Policy for the coastal border use”. This policy created the National and Regional Commission on coastal boarder use.

10.- Provide information on any national body (structure) that coordinates . . oceanographic/coastal research, observation and/or management in . . . . your country. The Chilean Defense Ministry (Navy Undersecretary) has the . . .responsibility to control and manage of “All the coast and marine .territories of the Chilean Republic”.

The member are:National Defense Ministry - Marine Undersecretaries – Regional Development Undersecretaries - Fisheries Undersecretaries - Planning Ministry Urbanism and Housing - Ministry Transport and Telecommunications - Ministry Chilean Navy - National Tourism Service.

CENDHOC is the national coordinator of oceanographic data exchange.

13.- Does your country have a national data management policy

Chile doesn’t have a specific policy for data management, nevertheless in 1975 the Supreme Decree N° 711 was passed establishing the mechanism which control the scientific and technological research that take place in the national marine jurisdiction.

DATA POLICIES

14.- Does your institution have a data policy (if you have answered positively to the previous question then indicate whether the institutional policy

is .different from the national policy)

No. CENDHOC applies International policy (IOC policy)

16.- Would your country be willing to share its oceanographic data globally . by articipating in the IODE Ocean Data Portal project

(see http://www.oceandataportal.org)

YES

http://www.oceandataportal.org/

17.- Does your country operate research vessels (if so then provide information)

YES, three oceanographic ships.

NATIONAL OBSERVATION PLATFORMS

AGOR Vidal GormazSHOA, the data is available for research and academic work.

R/V Abate Molina IFOP, the data is available for research and academic work.after data reception from CENDHOC.

B/I Carlos Porter IFOP, the data is available for research and academic work after data reception from CENDHOC.

19.- Does your country operate data buoys or other observation systems (if so ..then provide details)

Satellite transmitting data collecting platforms (DCP) for Sea Level, Sea Surface Temperature, air temperature and atmospheric pressure. SHOA.

NATIONAL OBSERVATION PLATFORMS

ASCII Format

Waves measuring buoys (Watchkeeper and Triaxys). SHOA.

APEX Buoys (Autonomous Profiler Explorer) for depth, temperature and salinity measurement. ARGO Project. SHOA.

DART Buoys (Deep-Ocean Assessment and reporting of tsunamis). SHOA.

Meteorological platforms (University of Chile, DIRECTEMAR)

NATIONAL/REGIONAL OCEAN RESEARCH/OBSERVATION/MANAGEMENT PROJECT

21.- Provide a list of national ocean research/observation/management in which multiple national institutions are involved. Please also indicate if these projects include a data and information management plan. For each of the projects please list the expected data and information products and services that should be provided by the project.

1.- CIMAR FIORDOS Project This is a multidisciplinary project that involves oceanography, meteorology, biodiversity and submarine morphology aspects in remote areas.

INFORMATION PRODUCTS Data Reports distributed on Interactive CDs and published at CENDHOC Web Page. This data is presented in tables and figures.


2.- ARGO-Chile Project This is a International project that involves the data acquisition of pressure, temperature and salinity obtained with drifting buoys ARGOS in the Pacific Ocean. In this project participated Concepción University and SHOA.

INFORMATION PRODUCTS At this moment CENDHOC is working in the transformation of all ARGO

data at CENDHOC data format.


22.- Provide a list of regional ocean research/observation/management in which one or more or your national institutions are involved. Please also indicate if these projects include a data and information management plan. For each of the projects please list the expected data and information products and services that should be provided by the project.

1.- CPPS Regional cruises

These are physical and biological cruises whose objective is to obtain a global view of Southeastern Pacific ocean. In this activities participated Colombia, Chile, Equator and Peru. Since 2008, this project created a Working Group on Data Management on this information

INFORMATION PRODUCTSAt this moment the Working Groups are working on a common format for physical and biological data and which country is responsible for his data. In the future the final product will be a scientific paper.


2.- Joint Cruises between Chile, Equator and Peru Navys.

These are oceanographic cruises whose objectives are to obtain many different oceanographic variables simultaneously and develop

a professional exchange on each cruise.

INFORMATION PRODUCTS

In this moment each country is working separately.

PARTICIPATION IN ODINCARSA

23.- Has your country participated in ODINCARSA between 2001 and 2009. If .yes then please provide some details.

Meeting Date Country Delegate

Planning ODINCARSA Workshop. October 2001 Equator. R. Rojas

First ODINCARSA training course in marine Data Man. May 2002 Equator. Y. Guerrero

First ODINCARSA training course in marine information management.

September 2002. Mexico. A. Smith

Second ODINCARSA training course in marine Data Management.

October 2003 Colombia. Y. Guerrero

Combined modeling and data management training workshop.

October 2005 Belgium. J. Belmar

ODINCARSA Ocean Data Management, training course. November 2005 Belgium. D. Guerra

ODINCARSA Marine Information Management, training course.

November 2005 Belgium. A. SmithP. Muñoz

Training course “GIS & Remote sensing data” September 2006 Belgium. D. Guerra

Training course “IMIS and Map Server & Open-Source web mapping tools”

December 2006 Belgium. D. Guerra

E-repository training course April 2007 Belgium. P. Muñoz


24.- If you answered positively to the previous question then how would you .assess the usefulness of ODINCARSA

Mainly in the training acquired on specialized software use.Knowledge exchange between the different members of ODINCARSA.

25.- If you answered yes to question 22 then how did you promote ODINCARSA in Your country

As CENDHOC we were member of a Work Group on Management information ….of the National Oceanographic Committee (CONA) involving all the Institutions ….related with marine sciences. All activities on data Management are promoted.

1.- First introduction training course on Oceanographic Data ….Management. (4 and 5 of November of 2004)2.- Second training course about acquisition and CTD Data management.

…..(5 and 6 of October of 2009)


26.- According to your country what should be the focus areas of .ODINCARSA during the next 4 years (2010-2013).

Data format management. With the purpose to define a unique exchange standard format.

Quality control management for other oceanographic data: sea level, waves, current etc.

Concentrate in the development of useful products for scientific community.

For example develop an on line Global Catalogue for the oceanographic information management at the different ODINCARSA Data Centers.

To continue with training courses.


27.- What are the national capacity building requirements that should be ……addressed by ODINCARSA during the next 4 years?

For Chile, to continue with training courses for data ..........management, including other oceanographic area.

Professional exchange of specialists among the involved .........ODINCARSA institution.

None of ODINCARSA activities should be terminated.


29.- What new products/services should be developed by ODINCARSA during the next 4 years.

To work on the continuous update of the web page because it is the unique medium through which we can inform the general public on the different activities.

As mentioned previously concentrate in the development of useful products for scientific community.

Further on line products such as data report, manuals, courses etc.

30.- Should ODINCARSA be linked to other IOC programmes? If yes ........then provide details. YES. With other regional programmes such as ODINAFRICA, ......ODINCINDO etc.

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