Sharing Data

GoMOOS is actively involved in several community initiatives using standardized methods to turn complex data streams into accessible and understandable information services. We are providing technical skills to connect existing environmental data systems to each other.

The projects below are examples of some of these efforts.

Current initiatives

• OpenIOOS.org - Hosted by GoMOOS, OpenIOOS.org is a demonstration portal for the SCOOP testbed infrastructure and related initiatives. For more information, visit http://www.openioos.org. (GoMOOS is an active supporter of a major coastal science initiative at the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) called the SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction (SCOOP) Program.)
  • Case studies:
    • Prototype Coastal Flooding and Erosion Forecast- GoMOOS has worked with meteorologists at the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine to prototype a decision-support tool that predicts coastal storm damage. The tool uses forecasts of water level and waves to predict coastal damage near Saco, Maine and Scituate, MA. The model data is readily accessed through the SCOOP infrastructure.
    • Real-time Data from the OGC Sensor Web Enablement - GoMOOS is advancing the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) through a demonstration that represents an effort to develop a Web Services Architecture for Ocean Observing that is enabling observing systems to move closer to the vision of ‘network as platform’.
    • In collaboration with SCOOP partners, GoMOOS developers have built visualization tools for water level and wave forecasts, storm retrospectives, and more.
      
      
• OCEANS IE (OGC) - an initiative that engages data managers and scientists in the Ocean-Observing community to advance their understanding and application of various OGC specifications (specifically the OGC Sensor Web Enablement initiative), solidify demonstrations for Ocean Science application areas, harden software implementations, and produce candidate OGC Best Practices documents that can be used to inform the broader ocean-observing community.
• For more information, visit http://www.oostethys.org/ogc-oceans-interoperability-experiment

• OOSTethys - a community of software developers and marine scientists who develop open source tools to integrate ocean observing systems. Our goal is to dramatically reduce the time it takes to install, adopt and update standards-compliant Web services. Current efforts include development of a cookbook for the SOS (Sensor Observation Service). For more information, visit http://www.oostethys.org

• Case studies:
  • Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO) - installed the SOS cookbook, made real-time buoy data available to GoMOOS.org (MVCO buoy)
  • University of New Hampshire Coastal Ocean Observing Center - installed the SOS cookbook, made real-time buoy data available to GoMOOS.org (UNH buoy)
  • Ecosystem Indicator Partnership - used SOS services to integrate data streams into Indicator Reporting Tool. (ESIP Indicator Reporting Tool)
    
    
    
• Q2O - To ensure a solid foundation for developing ocean observing systems, this project has been funded by the NOAA Coastal Services Center (Regional Integrated Ocean Observing System) to enable implementation of QA/QC standards into the evolving OpenGeospatial Consortium (OGC) – Sensor Web Enablement frameworks. For four focus areas (wave, in situ currents, CTD and dissolved oxygen), the project enables the development of specifications, generation data dictionaries and the definition of relevant SensorML profiles. For more information, visit http://q2o.whoi.edu/
  • GoMOOS is working on incorporating QA/QC into the SOS cookbooks developed through the OOSTethys initiative.
    
    
    
• Exchange Network - The Exchange Network is a partnership among states, tribes, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that is revolutionizing the exchange of environmental information. Partners on the Exchange Network share data efficiently and securely over the Internet. For more information on the Exchange Network, visit http://www.exchangenetwork.net
  • GoMOOS is working with NH DES and the GoMODP to enable exchange of monitoring data between the partners in the GoMODP according to the Environmental Data Standards Council (EDSC) standards and in alignment with the Water Quality Exchange (WQX) schema using Exchange Network protocols. Learn more about this project: http://www.gomodp.org/projects/exchange-network-project/

Access GoMOOS data via Web Service

• Access GoMOOS data via OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS)