Near Real-Time Oceanographic Data Management: Latest Developments

Abstract

Data sharing, interoperability and quality check are only a short part of the activities connected to the data management. Create a procedure to harmonize and disseminate heterogeneous data, collected by different meteo-oceanographic buoys in near real-time, is a challenge. In this paper, we describe a system for data validation, conversion in a homogeneous and standard format and dissemination adopting Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) using XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and OGC’s (Open Geospatial Consortium) standards. To meet the needs of different scientific communities as RITMARE (La Ricerca ITaliana per il MARE), Jerico (Towards a joint European research infrastructure network for coastal observatories), Copernicus, ODIP (Ocean Data Interoperability Platform) and FixO3 (Fixed-point Open Ocean Observatories), we decided to adopt SWE standard allowing interoperability between data in near real-time, using Sensor Model Language (SensorML) and Observations and Measurements(O&M) standards in a Sensor Observation Service (SOS).

Keywords

• Sensor web
• Real-time data
• Marine observations.