Integrating Ocean Observing Systems

Citation Information

Title: Integrating Ocean Observing Systems
Presenter: Luis Bermudez
Conference Information: International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) 2007
Date: 2007.07.04
Location: Perugia, Italy

Abstract

The earth- and ocean-science communities are developing the concept of a "system of systems" for observing our planet. To achieve an integrated interoperable Global Earth Ocean Observing System, standardization of some kind is needed. One challenge is that we already have many standards that address data-encoding formats, content metadata, transport protocols and controlled vocabularies. To help advance the orchestration of standards and the creation of best practice, end-to-end interoperability test beds are essential. Two grass roots community initiatives, the Marine Metadata Interoperability (MMI) Project and OpenIOOS, have aligned their interoperability test beds to form OOSTethys. Within OOSTethys, system components like 'data provider', 'data aggregator', 'mediator' and 'registry' have been defined. Standards that support interfacing between these components have been identified and tested for ocean observatories and observing systems. In this presentation we will provide an overview of OOSTethys and discuss the value for ocean observations of near-real-time data exchange and presentation. In particular, this talk will present our experiences developing applications that support the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Sensor Observation Service, and using controlled vocabularies encoded with World Wide Web standards