ISMAR - Institute of Marine Sciences

www.ismar.cnr.it

RITMARE project

www.ritmare.it

• 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)

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.
is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

It can be viewed online here and downloaded here.

To cite this work please refer to:

“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