1. 1 A Sample of NCDDC's GCOOS-Related Data Management Activities Julie Bosch NOAA/ National Coastal Data Development Center GCOOS DMAC Committee Meeting February 23-24, 2009

2. 2 Overview Gulf of Mexico Alliance Ocean and Coastal Mapping Regional Ecosystem Data Management (REDM) Q2O (QARTOD to OGC) Things to Consider

3. 3 Partnership of the states of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas Goal: Significantly increase regional collaboration to enhance the ecological and economic health of the Gulf of Mexico Gulf Of Mexico Alliance

4. 4 Six initial priority issues –regionally significant –can be effectively addressed through increased collaboration Priority Issue Teams –Water Quality for Healthy Beaches and Shellfish Beds –Wetland and Coastal Conservation and Restoration –Environmental Education –Reducing Nutrient Inputs to Coastal Ecosystems –Coastal Community Resiliency –Identification and Characterization of Gulf Habitats Overarching Efforts –Gulf of Mexico Ocean and Coastal Mapping and Monitoring Master Plan –Data Management Gulf Of Mexico Alliance

5. 5 The Governors’ Action Plan identifies one associated action: ID-1: Create and provide access to interactive habitat maps for priority Gulf of Mexico habitats Sample of data needs bathymetry, lidar, side scan, sediments, bottom character, oyster beds, seagrass, emergent vegetation, submerged aquatic vegetation Supporting Products Priority Habitat Information System (PHINS) Digital Library and Spatial Data Viewer - USGS, USACE, NOAA worked together to build the PHINS portal - Other federal and state agencies, universities, and NGOs contribute their data - PHINS three main features: Digital Library, Map Viewer, Metadata Tool Ecosystem Data Assembly Center - NCDDC, NMFS, MSU, NRL, NAVO, NGI - support ecosystem observations and other related data collected in GoMex Gulf Of Mexico Alliance Identification and Characterization of Gulf Habitats

6. 6 Goal: improve the efficiency of the nation's ocean and coastal mapping activities Interagency Working Group: USGS, NOAA, USACE, MMS provide information about planned, current, and completed mapping activities all types of data that describe the earth initial priorities will emphasize activities and data sets: – elevation (bathymetry/hydrography/topography) – shorelines – surface characterization (sea floor mapping, landcover classifications) – seismic data Ocean and Coastal Mapping

7. 7 Regional Ecosystem Data Management (REDM) Architecture that supports NOAA Ecosystem Goal Team and Integrated Ecosystem Assessments (IEAs) GCOOS sources of data for IEAs: contributes to REDM Semantic search capabilities, vocabulary management, affiliations, etc. in REDM can be utilized by GCOOS ecowatch.ncddc.noaa.gov

8. 8GCOOS DMAC February 23-24, 2009 Notification Service Subscription Service REDM - GOMA PIT Data Management Composite Service View Archive Metadata Data Middleware MERMAid Parent-level Metadata REDM Catalog Middleware Semantic Metadata Middleware Collection Storage Collection Service Collection-level Metadata 45 Day Data Cache Planning Service PIT 1 Remote Sensing PIT 6 PIT 5 PIT 4 PIT 3 PIT 2 Subscription Service Collection Storage Collection Service Collection-level Metadata 45 Day Data Cache

9. 9 Data Fusion Data Discovery User Community Data Integration Portal Access Collection Service REDM Data Access Data Centers & Centers of Data Archive & Stewardship GOMA Activities ‘Pull’ or’ Push’ Management Objectives Decision Support Tools EAS (Encryption & Authentication Services) Data & Metadata EAS PIT Data Streams GCOOS Data Streams Regional Ecosystem Data Management (REDM)

10. 10 Q2O (QARTOD to OGC SWE)

11. 11 New partners / different data / different perspectives on data management Coordination with GOMA data management activities – How can GCOOS support the data needs for GOMA Priority Issues – How do the GOMA Priority Issue Teams contribute data into GCOOS Ocean and Coastal Mapping activities – Consider the benefit to stakeholders to connect to these survey data through GCOOS Regional Ecosystem Data Management – Approach to semantic search enhance GCOOS data discovery – Broaden REDM with additional community-driven data classifications (thematic vocabularies) Q2O – Capturing quality control in an OGC SWE framework – Coordination with DIF Process for extensibility of GCOOS DMAC to new data sources A Few Things to Consider