1. February 28, 2005 NOAA / NOS / CO-OPS An Oceanographic Processing Environment: From System Design to Data Quality Chris Paternostro, Oceanographer NOAA, Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Service Roman Semkiw, Systems Analyst Systems Integration and Development, Inc.

2. February 28, 2005 NOAA / NOS / CO-OPS A Method of Quality Control for Systems that Quality Control Data

3. February 28, 2005 NOAA / NOS / CO-OPS System Quality Control

4. February 28, 2005 NOAA / NOS / CO-OPS A Classic Example

5. February 28, 2005 NOAA / NOS / CO-OPS National Current Observation Program Provide Data for: Navigation Search and Rescue/HAZMAT Coastal & Estuarine Circulation Tidal Current Tables Tidal Current Predictions from: –Area Surveys –Real Time in Shipping Channels

6. February 28, 2005 NOAA / NOS / CO-OPS Why? Increasing data flow –Yearly increase in the number of data collection sites –Increasing temporal resolution –Increasing spatial resolution Collaboration –Distributed Data Sets –Various Numerical Units –Various File Formats Antiquated Computer Software

7. February 28, 2005 NOAA / NOS / CO-OPS Capability Maturity Model (CMM) CMM Level 3 – The development process follows well defined rules and methods Tracks time and progress Method for attaining a quality of the final product Robust Project Planning

8. February 28, 2005 NOAA / NOS / CO-OPS Steps for System Quality Control

9. February 28, 2005 NOAA / NOS / CO-OPS Requirements for Data Quality Control

10. February 28, 2005 NOAA / NOS / CO-OPS System Design Modular Extensible Platform independent Transferable Consistent

11. February 28, 2005 NOAA / NOS / CO-OPS Benefits Reduce Defects Improved User Friendliness Reliability of Results Designed to User Specifications Improving the operational process Robust Analysis Suite

12. February 28, 2005 NOAA / NOS / CO-OPS Advanced Analyses

13. February 28, 2005 NOAA / NOS / CO-OPS Summary A lot of new software to be developed Decreased Defects Changing computer environment Transfer Data Share Computer Code Advanced Algorithms

14. February 28, 2005 NOAA / NOS / CO-OPS