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Titlesort iconDescriptionReference TypeReference Topic
ACT Sensors List

ACT has a searchable database of sensors used in coastal and ocean research and observing. The database is a living database; it is continually updated as new test results are available and as more information is provided on each sensor/instrument.

AGU Index Terms

Thesaurus for indexing AGU journal articles and meeting abstracts, covering Earth and Space sciences, including in-depth coverage of physical, chemical, and biological oceanography, marine geology and geophysics, hydrology, atmospheric sciences, biogeosciences, and global change.

The index terms cover a wide range of earth science domains as can be seen from the list of Top-Level Categories:

Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) Gazetteer

Description:

  • Protocol:
    • REST (XML and HTTP POST) defined by ADL
  • Query Capabilities:
    • placename
    • geographic area
    • feature class
    • inter-placename relationship
    • etc.
  • Features supported: 5.9 Million
Apollo

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)

ASFA is an abstracting and indexing service covering the world's literature on the science, technology, management, and conservation of marine, brackish water, and freshwater resources and environments, including their socio-economic and legal aspects.

As part of their service, ASFA has developed an extensive thesaurus of keywords. The ASFA thesaurus covers a wide area of the biological oceanographic domain. The glossary is more restricted in scope.

Argo Instrument List

(see Table 8, Page 50)

Argo instrument list contains 3-character number codes from 831-858 (14 instruments). From document: "The objective of Argo program is to operate and manage a set of 3000 floats distributed in all oceans, with the vision that the network will be a permanent and operational system."

Existing: The item is available for public use, has been released or widely adopted, and is sponsored or maintained.

Argo Parameters and quality control code lists

(see Tables 2 and 3, page 46)

Quality control codes are numbers 0-9 with meaning, real-time comments, and delayed comments. Parameter codes are 4-letters for temperature, dissolved oxygen, conductivity, pressure, salinity.

Biodiversity Resource Information Ontology

 

 

Biodiversity resource information ontology - introduced species, taxonomic information, geographic location.

 

BioPortal 2.0

BioPortal allows users to browse, upload, download, search, comment on, and create mappings for ontologies.

Users can browse and explore individual ontologies by navigating either a tree structure or an animated graphical view. Users can also view mappings and ontology metadata, and download ontologies.

Additionally, users who are signed in may also submit a new ontology to the library. All submissions to the library are reviewed.

BODC Instruments List

The British Oceanographic Data Centre list of instrument terms.