HR: 0800h
AN: IN41A-0067    [Abstracts]
TI: The GODAE High Resolution SST Project: Standards Based Interoperability in Action
AU: * Casey, K S
EM: Kenneth.Casey@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910, United States
AB: The Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) project is a large scale international effort to coordinate the production, distribution, and archiving of a wide range of satellite-based SST datasets. Built on existing standards for data formats and both file-level and collection- level metadata, the GHRSST project has achieved a high level of success in an area that has seen little past national cooperation and even less international cooperation. Today, GHRSST data are produced in common formats following internationally accepted content standards by government agencies, academic institutions, and commercial companies around the world. By following the format and content standards for metadata and data, GHRSST has successfully built and deployed a Regional/Global Task Sharing framework in which data and metadata are produced at local centers but centrally managed at a Global Data Assembly Center and archived at a Long Term Stewardship and Reanalysis Facility. Interoperable data access is enabled at all levels of this international framework. This presentation will examine the lessons learned over the last several years as GHRSST has adopted numerous standards, including netCDF with Climate and Forecast (CF) attribute conventions for data, and both Global Change Master Directory Document Interchange Format and Federal Geographic Data Commission standards for metadata. Plans for future adoption of emerging standards like netCDF-4 and ISO19115 will also be discussed.
UR: http://ghrsst.nodc.noaa.gov
DE: 0525 Data management
DE: 0530 Data presentation and visualization
DE: 4271 Physical and chemical properties of seawater
DE: 4275 Remote sensing and electromagnetic processes (0689, 2487, 3285, 4455, 6934)
DE: 4294 Instruments and techniques
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting