Integration of Environmental Datasets, Formats

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Integration of Environmental Datasets, Formats
Software in the IODE Resource Kit

• Murray Brown
• Phoenix Training Consultants
• New Orleans
• This PPT presentation complies with the Vanden
  Berghe Belgian Standard

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Search for the Holy Grail

• OceanPC Approach (early 90s)
• Lots of little programs
• Very loose integration
• Planning for the next generation (95)
• Central Engine versus Daisy Chain
• Integration of relational databases

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PLAN A Central Engine

• One program does it all
• Import and export all important formats
• Perform all analyses
• Perform all QC work
• Impossible to plan
• Impossible to fund
• Dead on arrival

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PLAN B Daisy Chain

• Small suite of robust analysis and QC programs
• Only major formats
• Write format conversion programs when necessary
• Good documentation
• Well-funded training program

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Late 90s Resource Explosion

• Black Sea CD (98)
• ArcExplorer, Ocean Data View, OceanPC for
  Windows, WOD98
• One-page HTML interface
• ODINEA Training (98-00)
• Web interface
• Integration diagrams
• ODINAFRICA (01-03)
• Manuals roadmap tutorials

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Data Analysis and Products

• Three main elements data, formats, software
• Three domains
• General progression from station data to GIS

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Ocean Station Domain

• Two main routes
• Raw data to ODV
• Global databases to ODV
• Main data products are spreadsheets
• Use of ACCESS is optional

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Gridded Data Domain

• Matrix data images
• Some routes are complicated
• Requires SURFER license but everything else is
  free

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Spatial Data Domain

• Requires only a free GIS browser
• Allows simple integration of Cartesian images
• Provides plan for creation of atlases

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Tutorials Schematics

• 50 step-by-step, illustrated tutorials
• Tutorials go from raw data to GIS synthesis
• All resources are 100 integrated
• 8 main formats
• 6 main software programs
• Target platforms
• ArcExplorer (free)
• Other GIS programs ()

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Current Scope

• Classical Hydrography
• Bathymetry/Topography
• Satellite Analyses (climatologies)
• Physical Oceanography
• Basic Meteorology
• Ecological Basemaps

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Not Included (Yet?)

• Biology Fisheries Data
• Time Series (scalar or vector)
• Satellite Analyses (synoptic)
• Lagrangian Platforms
• Active Database Server Construction
• XML etc.

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Current Applications
New or expanded Ocean Data Center collections in
27 countries
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Data Flow Paradigms
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Data Flow Stages
SURVEY
LEVELS 0,1
PROGRAM
LEVEL 2
GLOBAL
LEVEL 3
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Ocean Teacher/Resource Kit Today
SURVEY PROGRAM GLOBAL SAT 0,1 SAT 2 SAT 3
Hydrography SOME YES YES
Bathy/Topo YES
Phys/O SOME YES
Meteorology YES
Ecology YES
Satellite YES
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BILKO the Resource Kit

• Same Approach
• Reference materials
• Extensive tutorials
• Real-world anchors
• Robust Connections
• Formats HDF, BMP, GIF
• Projection Cartesian
• BILKO
• Level 2 analyses ? NODCs
• Re-projection
• Resource Kit
• Ocean data products ? BILKO

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The End (Product)

• WOD 01
• GEBCO97
• SHIPDRIFT
• PATHFINDER SST
• ESRI ATLAS
• DCW