EDMERP Details

General

Project Title

SeaDataNet Pan-European infrastructure for Ocean & Marine Data Management

Project Acronym

SeaDataNet

Project Reference

RII3-CT-2006-026212

Associated programme

EU FP6Research Infrastructures

Start Date

2006-04-01

End Date

2011-03-31

Geographic Area

Geocoverage

European regional seas and global oceans

Sea Area

World

Observations

Data Theme

Atmosphere

Biological oceanography

Chemical oceanography

Environment

Fisheries and aquaculture

Marine geology

Physical oceanography

Description

Abstract

Data availability is of vital importance for marine research but most of the European data are fragmented, not always validated and not easily accessible. In the countries bordering the European seas, more than 600 scientific laboratories from governmental organizations and private industry collect data by using various sensors on board of research vessels, submarines, fixed and drifting platforms, airplanes and satellites to measure physical, geophysical, geological, biological and chemical parameters, biological species etc. SEADATANET aims to develop an efficient distributed Pan-European Marine Data Management Infrastructure for managing these large and diverse data sets. The objective is to network the existing professional data centres of 35 countries, active in data collection, and provide integrated databases of standardized quality on-line. The on-line access to in-situ and remote sensing data, meta-data and products will be provided through a unique portal interconnecting, in the first phase, 11 interoperable node platforms. The development and adoption of common communication standards and adapted technology will ensure the platforms interoperability. This activity will be developed to gradually connect all the other data centres to the interoperable system. The quality, compatibility and coherence of the data issuing from so many sources, will be ensured by adopting standardized methodologies for data checking, by dedicating part of the activities to training and preparation of synthesised regional and global statistical gridded products from the most comprehensive in-situ and remote sensing data sets made available by the participants. These products, easier to interpret by non-specialist users, will be used first to check the data and the system operability, and further to market SEADATANET and to serve a wider range of uses than raw data: e.g. model initialisation, industrial projects and teaching. 49 partners contribute to SEADATANET.

Project website

http://www.seadatanet.org

Originators

Coordinator

IFREMER / IDM/SISMER

Contact name

MAUDIRE Gilbert

Fax

+33 (0)2 98.22.46.44

E-mail

sismer@ifremer.fr

Other Partners

IFREMER / IDM/SISMER

Alfred-Wegener-Institute (AWI), Wadden Sea Station Sylt

All-Russia Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information - World Data Centre (RIHMI-WDC) National Oceanographic Data Centre (NODC)

British Oceanographic Data Centre

Bulgarian National Oceanographic Data Centre(BGODC), Institute of Oceanology

ISAC - Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (Rome)

Collecte Localisation Satellites SA – CLS

Cyprus Oceanography Center

Department of Marine Research of the Environmental Protection Agency

Ecole Nationale Superieure des Sciences de la Mer et de l Amenagement du Littoral - ENSSMAL

ENEA Centro Ricerche Ambiente Marino - La Spezia

Finnish Institute of Marine Research (FIMR)

Flanders Marine Institute

German Oceanographic Datacentre (NODC)

Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Hellenic National Oceanographic Data Centre (HCMR/HNODC)

IHPT, Hydrographic Institute - Division of Oceanography

Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer – INSTM

Institute of Marine Research - Norwegian Marine Data Centre (NMD)

Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, Maritime Branch in Gdynia (IMWM MB)

Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission - IODE

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)

International Ocean Institute - Malta Operational Centre (University Of Malta) / Physical Oceanography Unit

Israel Marine Data Center (ISRAMAR)

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia – INGV, Sede di Bologna

Iv.Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Centre of Relations with UNESCO Oceanological Research Centre and GeoDNA (UNESCO)

Joint Research Centre (JRC)

Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Management Unit of North Sea and Scheldt Estuary Mathematical Models

Marine branch of Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute

Marine Information Service

Marine Institute

Marine Research Institute (MRI)

Middle East Technical University, Department of Civil Engineering

National Center for Marines Sciences - NCMS

Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Marine Ecology Roskilde

National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa"

National Institute of Biology - NIBMarine Biology Station

National Institute of Fisheries Research (INRH)

National Oceanographic Data Committee

OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography

P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS

Polytechnic University of Tirana - Institute of GeoSciences, Energy, Water and Environment

IEO/Spanish Oceanographic Institute

Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

Marine Systems Institute at Tallinn University of Technology

University of Liege, GeoHydrodynamics and Environment Research

Administration

Local identifier

931

Creation Date

2014-10-06

Revision Date

2014-10-06