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

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 …

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 …

Earth Observations (EO) collect various characteristics of the objective environment using
sensors which often have different measuring, spatial and temporal coverage. Making …

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 …

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 …

Ocean observing is critical to the design and development of ecosystem-based
management of public health risk, water quality, and living marine resources …

The goal of the Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) initiative of the Open Geospatial Consortium
(OGC) is the definition of web service interfaces and data encodings to make sensors …

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 …

An ever-increasing number of sensor resources are being exposed via the World Wide Web
to become part of the Digital Earth. Discovery, selection and use of these sensors and their …