OceanWatch - a multi-pronged approach to disseminating ocean remote sensing data
Abstract
The mission of the NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch program is to "provide and ensure timely access to near real-time satellite data to protect, restore, and manage U.S. coastal and ocean resources and understand climate variability and change to further enhance society's quality of life."
The OceanWatch - central Pacific node of the NOAA CoastWatch program facilitates access to available satellite remote sensing oceanographic datasets for a wide range of users (scientific community, management and conservation agencies, educators, fishermen, and the general public). These users have varying needs and data acquisition/analysis skills. OceanWatch focuses on long-term global level 4 datasets for climate research, as well as current datasets for daily monitoring of fishing conditions and bycatch mitigation. OceanWatch provides a variety of platforms (ERDDAP, THREDDS, LAS) allowing users to subset the various datasets, download products in different formats, or simply visualize data and create graphs (color maps, vector maps, time-series) online, according to their specific needs. OceanWatch partnered with the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS) to further develop a custom map-based viewer that allows users to generate time-series and statistics on the fly without requiring any data analysis skills. For technical users and researchers, OceanWatch organizes a 3-day satellite course and provides tutorials, R notebooks and Jupyter notebooks of example scripts to generate maps, climatologies, time-series, extracting data along animal tracks or at sample locations.- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AGUFMIN53C0624A
- Keywords:
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- 1916 Data and information discovery;
- INFORMATICSDE: 1930 Data and information governance;
- INFORMATICSDE: 1946 Metadata;
- INFORMATICSDE: 1976 Software tools and services;
- INFORMATICS