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A Sample of NCDDC's A Sample of NCDDC's GCOOS-Related Data GCOOS-Related Data

Management Activities Management Activities

Julie BoschJulie Bosch

NOAA/ National Coastal Data Development CenterNOAA/ National Coastal Data Development Center

GCOOS DMAC Committee MeetingGCOOS DMAC Committee Meeting

February 23-24, 2009February 23-24, 2009

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Overview

• Gulf of Mexico Alliance

• Ocean and Coastal Mapping

• Regional Ecosystem Data Management (REDM)

• Q2O (QARTOD to OGC)

• Things to Consider

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Partnership of the states of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas

Goal: Significantly increase regional collaboration to enhance the ecological and economic health of the Gulf of Mexico

Gulf Of Mexico Alliance

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Six initial priority issues

– regionally significant

– can be effectively addressed through increased collaboration

Priority Issue Teams

– Water Quality for Healthy Beaches and Shellfish Beds

– Wetland and Coastal Conservation and Restoration

– Environmental Education

– Reducing Nutrient Inputs to Coastal Ecosystems

– Coastal Community Resiliency

– Identification and Characterization of Gulf Habitats

Overarching Efforts

– Gulf of Mexico Ocean and Coastal Mapping

and Monitoring Master Plan

– Data Management

Gulf Of Mexico Alliance

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The Governors’ Action Plan identifies one associated action:

ID-1: Create and provide access to interactive habitat maps for priority Gulf of Mexico habitats

Sample of data needs

bathymetry, lidar, side scan, sediments, bottom character, oyster beds, seagrass, emergent vegetation, submerged aquatic vegetation

Supporting ProductsPriority Habitat Information System (PHINS) Digital Library and Spatial Data Viewer

- USGS, USACE, NOAA worked together to build the PHINS portal

- Other federal and state agencies, universities, and NGOs contribute their data

- PHINS three main features: Digital Library, Map Viewer, Metadata Tool

Ecosystem Data Assembly Center

- NCDDC, NMFS, MSU, NRL, NAVO, NGI

- support ecosystem observations and other related data collected in GoMex

Gulf Of Mexico AllianceIdentification and Characterization of Gulf Habitats

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Goal: improve the efficiency of the nation's ocean and coastal mapping activities

Interagency Working Group: USGS, NOAA, USACE, MMS

• provide information about planned, current, and completed mapping activities

• all types of data that describe the earth • initial priorities will emphasize activities and data sets:

– elevation (bathymetry/hydrography/topography)– shorelines– surface characterization (sea floor mapping, landcover classifications)– seismic data

Ocean and Coastal Mapping

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Regional Ecosystem Data Management (REDM)

• Architecture that supports NOAA Ecosystem Goal Team and Integrated Ecosystem Assessments (IEAs)

• GCOOS sources of data for IEAs: contributes to REDM

• Semantic search capabilities, vocabulary management, affiliations, etc. in REDM can be utilized by GCOOS

• ecowatch.ncddc.noaa.gov

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NotificationService

SubscriptionService

REDM - GOMA PIT Data ManagementComposite Service View

Archive

MetadataData

Middleware

MERMAid

Parent-levelMetadata

REDM Catalog

Middleware

Semantic Metadata

Middleware

Collection Storage

CollectionService

Collection-level Metadata 45 Day Data Cache

Planning

Service

PIT 1RemoteSensing

PIT 6

PIT 5

PIT 4

PIT 3

PIT 2

Subscription

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Collection Storage

CollectionService

Collection-level Metadata 45 Day Data Cache

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Data Fusion

Data Discovery

User Community

Data Integration

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Collection Service

REDMData Access

Data Centers & Centers of Data

Archive & Stewardship

GOMA Activities

‘Pull’ or’ Push’

Management Objectives

Decision Support Tools

EAS (Encryption & Authentication Services)

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GCOOS

GCOOSData Streams

Regional Ecosystem Data Management (REDM)

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Q2O (QARTOD to OGC SWE)

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• New partners / different data / different perspectives on data management

• Coordination with GOMA data management activities– How can GCOOS support the data needs for GOMA Priority Issues

– How do the GOMA Priority Issue Teams contribute data into GCOOS

• Ocean and Coastal Mapping activities– Consider the benefit to stakeholders to connect to these survey data

through GCOOS

• Regional Ecosystem Data Management– Approach to semantic search enhance GCOOS data discovery

– Broaden REDM with additional community-driven data classifications (thematic vocabularies)

• Q2O– Capturing quality control in an OGC SWE framework

– Coordination with DIF

• Process for extensibility of GCOOS DMAC to new data sources

A Few Things to Consider