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AN: IN53A-1188
TI: Building an Interoperable Relational Database for the National Deep Submergence Facility (NDSF)
AU: * Ferrini, V
EM: ferrini@ldeo.columbia.edu
AF: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, 61 Rt. 9W, Palisades, NY
10964, United States
AU: McCue, S
EM: smccue@whoi.edu
AF: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 266 Woods Hole Rd., Woods Hole, MA 02543,
United States
AU: Arko, R
EM: arko@ldeo.columbia.edu
AF: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, 61 Rt. 9W, Palisades, NY
10964, United States
AB:
The National Deep Submergence Facility (NDSF) operates the Human Occupied Vehicle (HOV) Alvin, the
Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) Jason 2, and the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Sentry. Data
acquired with these platforms is provided both to the science party on each expedition, and to the Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Data Library. Although several data sets are inventoried online, and
some data are accessible, there has not yet been a coordinated effort to construct an interoperable NDSF
database that can serve data to other data systems.
We present on progress made with the creation of an NDSF relational database maintained at WHOI and
developed through collaborative efforts with the Marine Geoscience Data System (MGDS). While our initial
efforts focus on standardizing vehicle metadata and developing techniques for digitally acquiring metadata at
sea, the creation of a relational database backend provides opportunities for improved data access and
interoperability. Constructing the database using PostgresSQL, coupled with spatial database extensions
(PostGIS), and an online GIS backend (MapServer), enables a searchable database and Open Geospatial
Consortium (OGC) compliant map based web services (Web Map Service and Web Feature Service) that can
be used to provide data access pathways through several programmatic interfaces.
DE: 0525 Data management
DE: 3080 Submergence instruments: ROV, AUV, submersibles
SC: Earth and Space Informatics [IN]
MN: 2008 Fall Meeting
