| Abstract |
The EU has adopted a new Marine Directive and Maritime Policy, which
includes a requirement for an overarching European Marine Observation
and Data Network (EMODNET), based upon a ‘systems of systems’ approach.
As part of the EMODNET Roadmap the EU has contracted a number of 3 year
data pilots, for Geology, Chemistry, Biology, Habitats, and Hydrography.
The overall objective of the pilots is to migrate fragmented and
inaccessible marine data into interoperable, continuous and publicly
available data streams for complete maritime basins. The specific
objectives of the pilots are:
- collating existing data from
public and private organisations relating to the state of maritime
basins; processing them into interoperable formats which includes agreed
standards, common baselines or reference conditions;
- assessing
their accuracy and precision and assembling them into common datasets;
- developing,
testing, operating and maintaining a portal allowing public access and
viewing of these data
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