CNR-ISMAR in situ observations network: new approaches for an interactive, high performance, interoperable system

Stefano Menegon, Pierluigi Penna, Mauro Bastianini, Giuseppe Stanghellini, Francesco Riminucci, Tiziano Minuzzo, Alessandro Sarretta

alessandro.sarretta [at] ismar.cnr.it

CNR - Institute of Marine Sciences

IMDIS 2016 - Gdansk, October 12, 2016

ISMAR - Institute of Marine Sciences

www.ismar.cnr.it Logo ISMAR

ISMAR conducts research in polar, oceanic and Mediterranean regions, focusing on the following themes:

the evolution of oceans and their continental margins, studying submarine volcanoes, faults and landslides and their potential impacts onshore

the influence of climate change on oceanic circulation, acidification, bio-geochemical cycles and marine productivity

submarine habitats and ecology, and the increasing pollution of coastal and deep-sea environments

the evolution of fish stocks with a view to keeping commercial fishing within sustainable limits and improving mariculture and aquaculture practices

natural and anthropogenic factors producing economic and social impacts on coastal systems from pre-history to the industrial epoc

RITMARE project

www.ritmare.it Logo RITMARE

"Italian Research for the Sea" national flagship project

7 sub-programs:
- SP1 - Maritime Technologies
- SP2 - Technologies for Sustainable Fishing
- SP3 - Planning of the Maritime Space in Coastal Waters
- SP4 - Planning of the Deep Marine Environment and the Open Sea
- SP5 - Observation System for the Marine Mediterranean Environment
- SP6 - Research, Training and Dissemination Structures
- SP7 - Interoperable Infrastructure for the Observation Network and Marine Data

RITMARE in-situ observations network

ISMAR Adriatic in situ observations network

CNR-ISMAR in situ observations network

Meteo marine stations
- Acqua Alta oceanographic tower (Gulf of Venice)
- S1 mast and E1 buoy (Emilia Romagna coast)
- Telesenigaglia mast (Marche coast)
- Meda Gargano (Puglia coast, Manfredonia gulf)
Meteo stations
- Riva sette martiri (Venice)
- Ismar (Ancona)
- Ismar (Lesina (FG)

Acqua Alta oceanographic tower S1-GB mast E1 buoy Telesenigaglia mast

Background: Unharmonized network

various levels of (or no) funding
different managing systems
separated databases
different validation procedures
non-standard publishing of data
non-common (or non existent) data policies

Goals

Unique visible access point for the ISMAR observational network
Archiving and storing historical data
real-time data streams for efficient operational model
Interactive and efficient system
Interoperability
Open data

Architecture

Implementation

InfluxDB: open source time-series data storage

Grafana: open source dashboards for querying and visualizing time series and metrics

Parameters and variables acquired

Use of SeaDataNet vocabularies for the Observed properties

Open science approach

Open access to data
Standard open licences for access and reuse:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY)
Publication of yearly datasets on Zenodo with DOI
Publication of a Data Paper with relevant aggregation of data

A quick hands-on

http://rmm.dati.ismar.cnr.it

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Additional bonus: ISMAR Data app

Still in Beta!

Conclusions

From a series of unconnected systems to a real network
Optimization of quality controlled data flows
Use of open source technologies and international standards
Vision towards open data access and sharing

CNR-ISMAR in situ observations network: new approaches for an interactive, high performance, interoperable system

by Menegon S., Penna P., Bastianini M., Stanghellini G., Riminucci F., Minuzzo T., Sarretta A.
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“Stefano Menegon, Pierluigi Penna, Mauro Bastianini, Giuseppe Stanghellini, Francesco Riminucci, Tiziano Minuzzo, Alessandro Sarretta (2016). CNR-ISMAR in situ observations network: new approaches for an interactive, high performance, interoperable system. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.4001448