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3 pages, 2 figures, [EN] Marine sciences and ocean observation are key to achieving a sustainable future. However, the systematic study of the marine environment is subject to strong constraints that limit its development, including the extent and accessibility of some study areas, weather, time and space scales and high operating costs. In the last two decades, great efforts have been made to achieve a multiscale temporal and spatial vision of the sea, but this work has only just begun. The number of measured parameters and the temporal and spatial sampling frequency must be increased, and they must be made synoptic along multiple scales. Important advances in the manufacture of sensors and the gradual automation of some sampling platforms (smart buoys, drifters, gliders and autonomous surface and submarine vehicles) mark the way towards this goal, and these resources are being used increasingly in marine research (Di Caccio and Troisi 2021). […], [ES] Las ciencias marinas y la observación de los océanos son claves en el camino hacia un futuro sostenible. No obstante, el estudio sistemático del ámbito marino tiene fuertes condicionantes que limitan fuertemente su desarrollo: la extensión y accesibilidad de algunas áreas de estudio, la meteorología, las escalas temporales y espaciales, los elevados costes operacionales, etc. En las dos últimas décadas se han hecho importantes esfuerzos para conseguir una visión multiescala (tanto temporal como espacial) del mar, pero es un camino que apenas ha comenzado. Es necesario incrementar el número de parámetros medidos, la frecuencia temporal y espacial de los muestreos, así como hacerlos sinópticos a lo largo de múltiples escalas. Los avances en la fabricación de sensores y la automatización paulatina de alguna de las plataformas de muestreo (boyas inteligentes, drifters, gliders, vehículos autónomos de superficie y submarinos) marcan el camino hacia este objetivo y su utilización está cada vez más extendida en el ámbito de la investigación marina (Di Caccio et al. 2021). […], [CAT] Les Ciències Marines i l’observació dels Oceans són clau en el camí cap a un futur més sostenible. No obstant això, l’estudi sistemàtic del medi marí té forts condicionants que en limiten el seu desenvolupament: l’extensió i accessibilitat d’algunes àrees d’estudi, la meteorologia, les escales temporals i espacials, les elevades despeses operacionals, etc. En les dues darreres dècades s’han realitzat importants esforços per aconseguir obtenir una visió multiescala del mar (tant temporal com espacial) però és un camí que tot just acaba de començar. És necessari incrementar el nombre de paràmetres medits, la freqüència temporal i espacial dels mostrejos, així com fer-los sinòptics al llarg de múltiples escales. Els avenços en la fabricació de sensors i la paulatina automatització d’algunes de les plataformes de mostreig (boies intel·ligents, drifters, gliders, vehicles autònoms de superfície i submarins) marquen el camí cap a aquest objectiu i la seva utilització és cada vegada més estesa en l’àmbit de la investigació marina (Di Caccio i Troisi 2021). […]

3 pages, 2 figures, [EN] During research cruises on oceanographic vessels, a large amount of data of different types are acquired, covering all study areas and characterizing and providing information on the sea surface, the water column, the seabed and the sub-seabed. These data are very valuable not only as a source of oceanographic research but also because it is difficult and expensive to acquire them in the complex marine environment. It is therefore essential to make this information accessible and reusable. […], [ES] Durante las campañas de investigación en buques oceanográficos se adquieren una gran cantidad de datos de diferente naturaleza, que cubren todos los ámbitos de estudio y que caracterizan y nos dan información tanto de la superficie del mar como de la columna de agua, del fondo y del subfondo marino. Estos datos son muy valiosos, no sólo porque son la fuente de las investigaciones oceanográficas, sino por la dificultad y el elevado coste de adquisición debido a la complejidad que representa trabajar en el medio marino. La accesibilidad de esta información y estos datos es por tanto fundamental y de ahí la importancia de que sean accesibles y reutilizables. […], [CAT] Durant les campanyes d’investigació en vaixells oceanogràfics s’adquireixen una gran quantitat de dades de diferent naturalesa, que cobreixen tots els àmbits d’estudi i que caracteritzen i ens donen informació tant de la superfície del mar com de la columna d’aigua, i del fons i subfons marí. Aquestes dades són molt valuoses, no només perquè són la font de les investigacions oceanogràfiques, sinó per la dificultat i l’elevat cost d’adquisició a causa de la complexitat que representa treballar en el medi marí. L’accessibilitat d’aquesta informació i aquestes dades és per tant fonamental i d’aquí la importància que siguin accessibles i reutilitzables. […]

5 pages, 1 figure, [EN] The Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM) is one of the leading centres of the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC), fully dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the marine environment. Under the motto “Ocean science for a healthy planet”, the ICM connects studies of local processes and ecosystems with the complexity and intelligence of our ocean planet, promoting the transfer of science and technology on topics related to the interaction between ocean and climate, conservation and sustainable use of marine ecosystems, and mitigation of the impact of natural and anthropogenic hazards. As a major acknowledgement to its scientific achievements and its commitment to society, the ICM has been recognized as a Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence, joining some 30 Spanish centres that currently have this accreditation and becoming the first and only marine centre yet to achieve it. [...], [ES] El Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM) es uno de los centros punteros del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), dedicado al estudio interdisciplinar del medio marino. Bajo el lema “Ciencia oceánica para un planeta saludable”, el ICM conecta estudios de procesos y ecosistemas locales con la complejidad e inteligencia de nuestro planeta océano, fomentando la transferencia de ciencia y tecnología en tópicos relacionados con la interacción entre océano y clima, la conservación y uso sostenible de los ecosistemas marinos y la mitigación del impacto de las perturbaciones naturales y antropogénicas. Por sus logros científicos y su compromiso con la sociedad, el ICM ha sido reconocido como un centro de excelencia Severo Ochoa, formando parte de una treintena de centros españoles que actualmente tienen esta acreditación y convirtiéndose en el primer y único centro marino en alcanzarla hasta la fecha. [...], [CAT] L’Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM) és un dels centres capdavanters del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), dedicat a l’estudi interdisciplinari del medi marí. Sota el lema “Ciència oceànica per a un planeta saludable”, l’ICM connecta estudis de processos i ecosistemes locals amb la complexitat i intel·ligència del nostre planeta oceà, i fomenta la transferència de ciència i tecnologia en tòpics relacionats amb la interacció entre oceà i clima, la conservació i l’ús sostenible dels ecosistemes marins i la mitigació de l’impacte de les pertorbacions naturals i antropogèniques. Pels seus assoliments científics i el seu compromís amb la societat, l’ICM ha estat reconegut com un centre d’excel·lència Severo Ochoa, formant així part d’una trentena de centres espanyols que actualment tenen aquesta acreditació i convertint-se en el primer i únic centre marí a aconseguir-la a dia d’avui. […]

1 page, [EN] Those of us who are lucky enough to live by the sea have incorporated it into in our daily lives. We enjoy the blue horizon and its offer of a place for meeting and leisure. Contact with the sea through physical access arouses our curiosity. It drives us to learn about it and therefore to desire to maintain a sustainable relationship with it. “An accessible ocean”, one of the seven objectives of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, is therefore of paramount importance for our development and the future of our existence. […], [ES] Todos aquellos que tenemos la suerte de vivir cerca del mar hemos incorporado, sin darnos cuenta, su presencia en nuestro día a día, disfrutamos del azul horizonte que nos proporciona y de su oferta como lugar de encuentro y espacio de ocio. El contacto con el mar, el acceso físico a este medio nos despierta curiosidad, nos empuja a su conocimiento y por tanto a la conciencia de mantener una relación sostenible. Es en este sentido donde el acceso al océano acontece el acceso a su conocimiento, aspecto de importancia capital para nuestro desarrollo y para el futuro de nuestra existencia, y uno de los 7 objetivos –“el Océano accesible”– a lograr en la Década que celebramos. […], [CAT] Tots aquells que tenim la sort de viure vora el mar hem incorporat, sense adonar-nos, la seva presència en el nostre dia a dia, gaudim del blau horitzó que ens proporciona i de la seva oferta com a lloc de trobada i espai de lleure. El contacte amb el mar, l’accés físic a aquest medi ens desperta curiositat, ens empeny al seu coneixement i per tant a la consciència de mantenir-hi una relació sostenible. És en aquest sentit on l’accés a l’oceà esdevé l’accés al seu coneixement, aspecte d’importància cabdal pel nostre desenvolupament i pel futur de la nostra existència, i un dels 7 objectius –“l’Oceà accessible”– a assolir en la Dècada que celebrem. […]

3 pages, 2 figures, [EN] For more than two centuries we have used boats to observe the oceans, but the conception of oceanographic vessels as we know them today is relatively recent. We have an authentic fleet of highly technical oceanographic research vessels that are highly specialized and capable of deploying a multitude of sensors and measurement and sampling devices. Although we use airborne observation techniques, with sophisticated sensors mounted on satellites that provide us with information from the “skin” of the oceans synoptically, networks of underwater sensors capable of monitoring a large number of parameters and transmitting the data to the internet in real time, autonomous vehicles and measurement stations, and even sensors mounted on the back of marine animals, research vessels remain today a fundamental platform for the marine scientist’s work. […], [ES] Desde hace más de dos siglos hemos utilizado embarcaciones para la observación de los océanos, pero la concepción de los buques oceanográficos como los conocemos hoy es relativamente reciente. Contamos con una auténtica flota de buques de investigación oceanográfica altamente tecnificada, muy especializada y capaz de desplegar multitud de sensores, equipos de medida y muestreo. Aunque empleamos técnicas de observación aerotransportadas, con sofisticados sensores montados en satélites que nos proporcionan información de la “piel” de los océanos de forma sinóptica, redes de sensores submarinos capaces de monitorizar gran cantidad de parámetros y transmitir sus datos a Internet en tiempo real, vehículos y estaciones de medida autónomos e incluso sensores montados a lomos de animales marinos, los buques de investigación siguen siendo hoy en día una plataforma fundamental para el trabajo del científico marino. […], [CAT] Des de fa més de dos segles hem utilitzat embarcacions per a l’observació dels oceans, però la concepció dels vaixells oceanogràfics com els coneixem avui és relativament recent. Comptem amb una autèntica flota de vaixells de recerca oceanogràfica altament tecnificada, molt especialitzada i capaç de desplegar multitud de sensors, equips de mesura i mostreig. Tot i que emprem tècniques d’observació aerotransportades, amb sofisticats sensors muntats en satèl·lits que ens proporcionen informació de la “pell” dels oceans de manera sinòptica, xarxes de sensors submarins capaços de monitorar gran quantitat de paràmetres i transmetre les seves dades a Internet en temps real, vehicles i estacions de mesura autònoms i fins i tot sensors muntats a lloms d’animals marins, els vaixells de recerca continuen sent avui dia una plataforma fonamental per al treball del científic marí. […]

16 pages, 1 figure, Sustained and integrated ocean observations are vital to establish the ocean state and variability, to understand the ocean’s role in climate change. We revise the international frame of ocean observation and the main scientific and societal questions that require multidisciplinary data at a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, and from the nearshore to the open ocean. We present the observing challenges for 2030, CSIC leadership and capacities to achieve them

2 pages, 2 figures, [EN] t seems a long time since 1971, when the oceanographic research vessel Cornide de Saavedra embarked an IBM 1130 computer for the first time to process continuous data of temperature, salinity and chlorophyll of the sea surface. This practice, which is so familiar today, changed the way we look at oceanography. Fifty years have passed since then. […], [ES] Lejano parece ese 1971 cuando el buque de investigación oceanográfica Cornide de Saavedra embarcó por primera vez un ordenador IBM 1130 y se midieron y procesaron datos en continuo de temperatura, salinidad y clorofila de la superficie del mar. Este hecho que hoy resulta tan familiar, cambió el modo de ver la oceanografía. Desde entonces han pasado ya 50 años. […], [CAT] Llunyà queda aquell 1971 quan el vaixell de recerca oceanogràfica Cornide de Saavedra embarcava per primera vegada un ordinador IBM 1130 i es van mesurar i processar dades en continu de temperatura, salinitat y clorofil·la de la superfície del mar. Aquest fet que avui resulta tan familiar, va canviar el mode de veure l’oceanografia. Des de llavors ja han passat 50 anys. […]

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11 pages, 13 figures, [EN] The Marine Technology Unit of the Spanish Research Council (UTM-CSIC) is responsible for the management of oceanographic research vessels. During the oceanographic cruises, a large amount of spatial data is acquired and managed by the UTM Data Service, from data that is automatically and continuously acquired in a trajectory, such as the temperature and salinity of the sea, to data that they are acquired in specific points or areas of study, such as a sound velocity profile in the water column or a bathymetry to map the seabed. The purpose of the UTM Data Service is to disclose what data exists and where, how and when it has been acquired and, in addition, to provide access to that data. For this, a national SDI is available, consisting of a Catalogue of Oceanographic Cruises carried out on ships that it has managed since 1991, with more than 500 cruises, and a Geoportal that allows the creation of maps combining layers. The UTM is a National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) of the Distributed European Sea Data Infrastructure SeaDataNet, to which it provides metadata (Cruise Summary Report -CSR- and Common Data Index -CDI-, ISO19139) and public data to be shared, [ES] La Unidad de Tecnología Marina del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (UTM-CSIC) se encarga de la gestión de buques oceanográficos de investigación. Durante las campañas oceanográficas se adquieren una gran cantidad de datos espaciales que son gestionados por el Servicio de Datos de la UTM, desde datos que se adquieren de forma automática y continua en una trayectoria, como la temperatura y salinidad superficial del mar, a datos que se adquieren en puntos o áreas concretas de estudio, como sería un perfil de velocidad del sonido en la columna de agua o una batimetría para cartografiar el fondo marino. El propósito del Servicio de Datos de la UTM es dar a conocer qué datos existen y dónde, cómo y cuándo han sido adquiridos y además, dar accesibilidad a esos datos. Para ello, se dispone de una IDE nacional que consta de un Catálogo de Campañas Oceanográficas llevadas a cabo en los buques que gestiona desde 1991, con más de 500 campañas, y de un Geoportal que permite crear mapas combinando capas. La UTM es un Nacional Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) de la Infraestructura Distribuida Europea de Datos Marinos SeaDataNet, a la que aporta metadatos (Cruise Summary Report -CSR- y Common Data Index -CDI-, ISO19139) y datos públicos para ser compartidos

IX Jornadas Ibéricas de Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales, 17-19 de octubre de 2018, Menorca, La Unidad de Tecnología Marina del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (UTM-CSIC) se encarga de la gestión de buques oceanográficos de investigación. Durante las campañas oceanográficas se adquieren una gran cantidad de Datos Espaciales que son gestionados por el Servicio de Datos de la UTM, desde datos que se adquieren de forma automática y contínua en una trayectoria, como la temperatura y salinidad superficial del mar, a datos que se adquieren en puntos o áreas concretas de estudio, como sería un perfil de velocidad del sonido en la columna de agua o una batimetría para cartografiar el fondo marino. El propósito del Servicio de Datos de la UTM es, por un parte, dar a conocer qué datos existen y dónde, cómo y cuándo han sido adquiridos y por otra parte dar accesibilidad a la mayor parte posible de estos datos, que han sido adquiridos con fondos públicos, con el fin de que puedan ser reutilizados. [...]

4 pages, Multibeam data processing is essential for bedform mapping because the resulting bathymetric map is the basis for the characterization of bedforms and for further analysis and interpretations. The existence of a large amount of spatial data in general and swath bathymetry data in particular requires the creation of metadata and spatial data services that should make it possible to find, view and download data in order to share them at various levels, meeting international standards following the INSPIRE Directive

Dañobeitia, Juan José ... et al.-- American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 12-16 December 2016, San Francisco, European Multidisciplinary seafloor and the Observatory of the water column for Development (EMSODEV) is a Horizon-2020 UE project whose overall objective is the operationalization of eleven marine observatories and four test sites distributed throughout Europe, from the Arctic to the Atlantic, from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea. The whole infrastructure is managed by the European consortium EMSO-ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) with the participation of 8 European countries and other partner countries. Now, we are implementing a Generic Sensor Module (EGIM) within the EMSO ERIC distributed marine research infrastructure. Our involvement is mainly on developing standard-compliant generic software for Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) on EGIM device. The main goal of this development is to support the sensors data acquisition on a new interoperable EGIM system. The EGIM software structure is made up of one acquisition layer located between the recorded data at EGIM module and the data management services. Therefore, two main interfaces are implemented: first, assuring the EGIM hardware acquisition and second allowing push and pull data from data management layer (Sensor Web Enable standard compliant). All software components used are Open source licensed and has been configured to manage different roles on the whole system (52º North SOS Server, Zabbix Monitoring System). The acquisition data module has been implemented with the aim to join all components for EGIM data acquisition and server fulfilling SOS standards interface. The system is already achieved awaiting for the first laboratory bench test and shallow water test connection to the OBSEA node, offshore Vilanova I la Geltrú (Barcelona, Spain). The EGIM module will record a wide range of ocean parameters in a long-term consistent, accurate and comparable manner from disciplines such as biology, geology, chemistry, physics, engineering, and computer science, from polar to subtropical environments, through the water column down to the deep sea. The measurements recorded along EMSO NODES are critical to respond accurately to the social and scientific challenges such as climate change, changes in marine ecosystems, and marine hazards

Toma, D. ... et al.-- Proceedings of the Geospatial Sensor Webs Conference (GSW 2016), 29-31 August 2016, Münster, Germany.-- 5 pages, 7 figures, 1 table, The EMSODEV[1] (European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory DEVelopment) is an EU project whose general objective is to set up the full implementation and operation of the EMSO distributed Research Infrastructure (RI), through the development, testing and deployment of an EMSO Generic Instrument Module (EGIM). This research infrastructure will provide accurate records on marine environmental changes from distributed local nodes around Europe. These observations are critical to respond accurately to the social and scientific challenges such as climate change, changes in marine ecosystems, and marine hazards. In this paper we present the design and development of the EGIM data acquisition system. EGIM is able to operate on any EMSO node, mooring line, sea bed station, cabled or non-cabled and surface buoy. In fact a central function of EGIM within the EMSO infrastructure is to have a number of ocean locations where the same set of core variables are measured homogeneously: using the same hardware, same sensor references, same qualification methods, same calibration methods, same data format and access, and same maintenance procedures, This study benefited from the H2020 INFRADEV‐3‐2015 EMSODEV Project n°676555

European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2016 (EGU2016), 17-22 April 2016, Vienna, Austria.-- 1 page, The EU FP7 Projects Eurofleets and Eurofleets2 are an European wide alliance of marine research centers that aim to share their research vessels, to improve information sharing on planned, current and completed cruises, on details of ocean-going research vessels and specialized equipment, and to durably improve cost-effectiveness of cruises. Within this context logging of information on how, when and where anything happens on board of the vessel is crucial information for data users in a later stage. This forms a primordial step in the process of data quality control as it could assist in the understanding of anomalies and unexpected trends recorded in the acquired data sets. In this way completeness of the metadata is improved as it is recorded accurately at the origin of the measurement. The collection of this crucial information has been done in very different ways, using different procedures, formats and pieces of software in the context of the European Research Fleet. At the time that the Eurofleets project started, every institution and country had adopted different strategies and approaches, which complicated the task of users that need to log general purpose information and events on-board whenever they access a different platform loosing the opportunity to produce this valuable metadata on-board. Among the many goals the Eurofleets project has, a very important task is the development of an “event log software” called EARS (Eurofleets Automatic Reporting System) that enables scientists and operators to record what happens during a survey. EARS will allow users to fill, in a standardized way, the gap existing at the moment in metadata description that only very seldom links data with its history. Events generated automatically by acquisition instruments will also be handled, enhancing the granularity and precision of the event annotation. The adoption of a common procedure to log survey events and a common terminology to describe them is crucial to provide a friendly and successfully metadata on-board creation procedure for the whole the European Fleet. The possibility of automatically reporting metadata and general purpose data, will simplify the work of scientists and data managers with regards to data transmission. An improved accuracy and completeness of metadata is expected when events are recorded at acquisition time. This will also enhance multiple usages of the data as it allows verification of the different requirements existing indifferent disciplines

Treballs Finals de Grau de Física, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Curs: 2016, Tutors: Albert Romano i Mauricio Moreno, This work consists of the study and characterisation of the photonic band gaps (PGB) for different 2D-crystal structures. It has run with a simulating software called Optiwave. We are going to use two methods to study photonic crystals, the Finite-difference time-domain method (FDTD) and the Plane wave expansion method (PWE). This study has been focus on square and hexagonal lattice formed by dielectric cylinders in water, thus one of the important parameters is the ratio radius-to-pitch

11 pages, 2 figures, Data management in the marine sciences faces the complex issue of addressing contrasting cognitive models across scientific domains, meaning the various representations that different communities build for overlapping areas of interest. Each of these communities constructs an identity on a specific and personal set of inherited backgrounds, practices, and tacit knowledge, which are mirrored in how they understand the targets of their studies. From a practical point of view, this can result in mis-linking observations and usage. This paper reports on the work done within the EU FP7 SeaDataNet project to tackle such problems through an integrated discovery and data access paradigm. It is based on a flexible metadata model that allows researchers to link domain-specific metadata profiles encoded using SensorML OGC standard, the general discovery framework based on an ISO 19115/19139 profile called CDI, and the data through a common hub based on the Observations and Measurements OGC standard

Garcia, O. ... et al.-- 7th International Workshop on Marine Technology – Martech Workshop 2016, 26-28 October 2016, Barcelona.-- 2 pages, 5 figures, The EMSODEV1 (European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water-‐ column Observatory DEVelopment) is a UE project whose general objective is to set up the full implementation and operation of the EMSO distributed Research Infrastructure (RI), through the development, testing and deployment of an EMSO Generic Instrument Module (EGIM). The EGIM module will measure various ocean parameters in a long-term consistent, accurate and comparable manner. These measurements are critical to respond accurately to the social and scientific challenges such as climate change, changes in marine ecosystems, and marine hazards. Here we present the current status of the EGIM data acquisition system development, This study benefited from H2020 INFRADEV- ‐3- ‐2015 EMSODEV Project n°676555

SeaDataNet II wants to adopt the OGC standards for Sensor Web Enablement (SWE). This document formulates specific SeaDataNet profiles for the SensorML and Observations & Measurements models that can be applied by operators of operational observation systems to describe in more detail their observations and to provide standardised access to these observations using the SOS service protocol. In practice, the SensorML and O&M metadata will be attached to the core CDI discovery format as extensions, giving users of the SeaDataNet portal more usage information on specific observations and a way for direct access to the related data streams from operational sensor systems, such as real-time Metocean networks and underway data from systems onboard research vessels., Ce document décrit les profiles sensorML et O&M proposé pour les observations marines dans le cadre de l'infrastructure SeaDataNet.

Fourth International Workshop on Marine Technology (MARTECH 2011), 22-23 September 2011, Cádiz.-- 1 page, The INSPIRE Directive (2007/2/EC) is leading the way towards development and creation of a Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) of the Institute of Marine Science (ICM-CSIC) and the Marine Technology Unit (UTM-CSIC). As a first step, a Catalog Web Service (CWS) was developed to access geospatial information of the projects, vessels and observatories, under the guidelines of standardization established by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO). MIKADO was chosen to edit metadata and GeoNetwork to search, publish and distribute geospatial data across multiple catalogs. A specific Java app (called Forest) was developed to create metadata based on MIKADO XML files. Furthermore, an XML style sheet was developed to import metadata created by MIKADO into GeoNetwork complying with ISO 19139.

Martech 2009 Third Marine Technology Workshop, 19-20 november 2009, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona.-- 2 pages, 2 figures, In this work a Geographic Information System Architecture for Oceanographic Data is presented. This has been designed by the Unidad de Tecnología Marina to be used into an Oceanographic Data Acquisition System implemented on board research vessels as a complete Service Layer integrated in the real time data services and also in to the archive data retrieval procedure. The main objective was to use opensource solutions and to follow the directives of the Open Geospatial Consortium in order to implement the different data services

A new Data Acquisition and Operation System for Oceanographic ships and Instrumentation Networks has been developed by the Marine Technology Unit of the Spanish Research Vessels for their networked remote acquisition platforms. The new system built over LABVIR project background follows a Service Oriented Architecture to allow expandable access to acquired data in real time and to archived data. Several Data layers are implemented to allow data access from the more common tools and formats used in marine sciences.