Effective ocean and coastal data management are needed to manage marine ecosystem
health. Past ocean and coastal data management systems were often very specific to a …

As we continue to expand our activities on and beneath the surface of our oceans, there is
an ever-expanding requirement to monitor and collect oce? anographie and meteorological …

The study of global phenomena requires the combination of a considerable amount of data
coming from different sources, acquired by different observation platforms and managed by …

Coastal buoys and stations provide frequent, high quality marine observations for
oceanographic study, weather service, atmospheric, and public safety. There is a great need …

The Earth-and ocean-science communities are developing the concept of a" system of
systems"(www. epa. gov/geoss) for observing the Earth and oceans. Related initiatives in …

To address important marine research and application challenges, there is a critical need for
ocean observatories to share data in a way that is easy to use and integrate. Fulfilling this …

The Oceans of Tomorrow (OoT) projects, funded by the European Commission's FP7
program, are developing a new generation of sensors supporting physical, biogeochemical …

The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) is an environmental observatory covering a
diversity of oceanic environments, ranging from the coastal to the deep ocean. Construction …

In many areas of Earth science, including climate change research and operational
oceanography, there is a need for near real-time integration of data from heterogeneous and …

The open service network for marine environmental data (NETMAR) project uses semantic
web technologies in its pilot system which aims to allow users to search, download and …