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| Titel |
SIMOcean: Maritime Open Data and Services Platform for Portuguese
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Nuno Almeida, Nuno Grosso, Nuno Catarino, Antonio Gutiérrez, Luisa Lamas, Margarida Alves, Sara Almeida, Ricardo Deus, Paulo Oliveira |
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EGU General Assembly 2016
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
en
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PDF |
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In: GRA - Volume 18 (2016) |
| Datensatznummer |
250135918
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2016-16841.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Portugal is the country with the largest EEZ in the EU and the 10th largest EEZ in the world,
at 3,877,408 km2, rendering the existence of an integrated management of Portuguese marine
system crucial to monitor a wide range of interdependent domains. A system like this
assimilates data and information from different thematic areas, ranging from ocean and
atmosphere state variables to higher level datasets describing human activities and related
environmental, social and economic impacts.
Currently, these datasets are collected by a wide number of public and private institutions
with very diverse purposes (e.g., monitoring, research, recreation, vigilance) leading to
dataset duplication, inexistence of common data and metadata standards across organizations,
and the propagation of closed information systems with different implementation solutions.
This lack of coordination and visibility hinders the marine management, monitoring and
vigilance capabilities, not only by making it more difficult to access, or even be aware
of, the existence of certain datasets, but also by minimizing the ability to create
added value products or services through dataset integration from different sources.
Adopting Open Data approach will bring significant benefits by reducing the cost of
information exchange and data integration, promoting the extensive use of this
data.
SIMOcean (System for Integrated Monitoring of the Ocean), co-funded by the EEA
Grants Programme, is integrated in the initiative of the Portuguese Government to develop a
set of coordinated systems providing access to national marine data. These systems aim to
improve the Portuguese marine management, monitoring and vigilance capabilities,
aggregating different data, including specific human activities datasets (vessel traffic, fishing
records, oil spills), and environment variables (waves, currents, wind). Those datasets,
currently scattered among different departments of the Portuguese Meteorological (IPMA)
and the Navy’s Hydrographic (IH) Institutes, will be brought together in the SIMOcean Open
Data system.
The SIMOcean system will also exploit this data in the following three flagship
value added services: 1) Characterisation of Fishing Areas; 2) Wave Alerts for Sea
Ports; and 3) Support to Search and Rescue Missions. These services will be driven
by end users such as Civil Protection Authorities, Port Authorities and Fishing
Associations, where these new products will lead to a significant positive impact in their
operations.
SIMOcean will be based on open source web based GIS interoperable solutions,
compliant with OGC and INSPIRE directive standards to support the evolution of a set of
open interfaces and protocols in the development of a common European spatial data
infrastructure. The Catalogue solution (based on ckan) will consider the Portuguese Metadata
Profile for the Sea developed by SNIM@R project, the guidelines provided by the directive
2013/37/EU and the Goldbook provided by the European Data portal. The system will be
based on SenSyF approach of a scalable Cloud Computing system, providing authorised
entities a single access point system for data catalogue, visualisation, processing and value
added service deployment. It will be used by the two of the main Portuguese sea data
providers with operational responsibilities in marine management, monitoring and vigilance. |
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