Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 1 SISMER Systèmes d’Informations Scientifiques pour la Mer French National Oceanographic Data Centre Michèle Fichaut, Loic Petit de la Villéon

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 2 History and missions of the data centre SISMER (Systèmes d'Informations Scientifiques pour la Mer) is the Designated National Oceanographic Data Centre for France (French NODC) for the International Oceanographic Data Exchange programme (IODE) of UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC). It was created in 1990, following the former “Bureau National des Données Océaniques” (BNDO created in 1968) and belongs to the Informatics and Marine Data Department (IDM) of IFREMER, the main French government research agency devoted to ocean research and exploitation.

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 3 IFREMER IFREMER (the French Institute of Research and Exploitation of the Sea), a public institute of industrial and commercial nature, created by a decree of 5 June 1984, is the only French body with an exclusively maritime vocation. It is placed under the joint authority of the Ministries of Research and Technology, of Fisheries and Equipment and Transport. Annual budget : 150million €, 1700 executives, researchers, engineers, seamen, technicians and administrative staff Around 70 laboratories of research or service departments, located in 5 centres (Boulogne-sur-mer, Brest, Nantes, Toulon, Tahiti) and 21 stations along the entire coastline of metropolitan France and in French overseas territories 7 vessels (3 for coastal seas), 1 manned + 1 remote submersibles (Nautile and Victor), various anchored and drifting platforms equipped with scientific instruments.

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 4 Computer and Marine Data Department (IDM)

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 5 Reference Geographical Data GIS Michel BELLOUIS Patrick DANEL SISMER team and main activities Head : Loïc PETIT de la VILLEON Secretary (with ISI): Béatrice MILOSAVLJEVIC (1/2) National Geophysical and Geological Data Bank Vanessa Tosello Céline CORDIER Operational Oceanography ARGO/Coriolis DC Loïc PETIT DE LA VILLEON Christine COATANOAN Vincent BERNARD Emilie BRION (temporary) 1 person from the Hydrographic Office Coastal Oceanography (CDOCO) Michèle FICHAUT Armel BONNAT Lidwine NONNOTTE (temporary) Total staff (full time equivalent )= IFREMER permanent 13.5 temporary 3 SHOM (Hydrographic Office) 1 National Physical and Chemical Data Bank Michèle FICHAUT Françoise LE HINGRAT Nolwenn CARN Dephine Laffay (temporary) Coordination of European projects Eric Moussat

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 6 SISMER missions To design and operate scientific information systems and databases in the domain of the sea; To set the standards of quality to be respected for data storage; To maintain an inventory of information systems and databases, the responsible scientists and rules for their availability; To represent IFREMER within national and international authorities concerned with the management of sea data; To provide training and transfer of knowledge within its field of competence.

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 7 SISMER projects SISMER contributes to the data management system of several thematic and regional projects, in National, European and International partnership and in collaboration with other data centres.

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 8 General inventories Cruises summary reports(ROSCOP/CSR ) French Directory of Marine data (EDMED) European Directory of Initial Observation Systems (EDIOS) Environmental Research Projects (EDMERP) Common Data Index (CDI) All available through Nautilus Web portal

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 9 National physical and bio-Chemical database Main data sets in the national archives: CTD profiles33316 Bottle Cast profiles Current Meter Time Series2138 Underway ADCP222 cruises Thermistor Chain Time Series125 Sea surface salinity from TSG (cruises) 401 cruises Related Projects : GODAR/WESTPAC/MEDAR/MEDATLAS, MATER, OCTOPUS, ACME, Bay of BISCAYE, SEA-SEARCH, SeaDataNet

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 10 National physical and bio-chemical database

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 11 ADCP data processed in near real time 202 ADCP cruises (2001 – 2007)

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 12 Operational Oceanography CORIOLIS data centre In situ data for operational oceanography needs, for open ocean Argo profiling floats, XBT (GTSPP program) and TSG (Gosud project) data from research and merchant vessels Moorings (OceanSites project),Surface drifting floats and gliders T, S VERTICAL PROFILESNb PROFILES2007 INCREASE% Argo profiling floats % buoys, moorings % Vessels (XBT, CTD) % Total % TIME SERIES - trajectories Nb MEASURES 2007 INCREASE % Argo profiling floats % buoys % Vessels (TSG) % Total %

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 13 Coriolis data centre : 5744 ARGO floats (2994 active)

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 14 Coriolis data centre : French contribution to GOSUD 21 SHIPS – measurements

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 15 Coriolis data centre : underway data Location map of one month of data

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 16 Operational Oceanography CORIOLIS data centre

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 17 FORMATS for physical and chemical data Catalogues metadata : Oracle database Data either in ASCII files (physical and geochemical database auto descriptive ASCII (MEDATLAS) : CTD, Bottle NetCDF : ADCP, ARGO In ORACLE database : Real time data of Coriolis data centre

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 18 Quality Assurance : delayed mode data Methodology QC0 : Check the format and the completeness of the information QC1 : Check the location and date QC2 : Check the data points Results GTSPP Quality flag to each numerical value (Physical-bio- chemical data) References - Standards CIEM-Marine Data Management working Group (CIEM) UNESCO/COI/IODE : International Oceanographic Data & Information Exchange

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 19 QC1 Control of the location and Date - Data collected in station

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 20 QC2 - Control of the data points

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 21 National geophysical & geological database Content of the French National Archives (in number of cruises): PROCESSED R.V. NAVIGATION : 1365 MULTIBEAM ECHO-SOUNDING: 450 BATHYMETRY : SINGLE-BEAM ECHOSOUNDING: 630 UNDERWAY MARINE GRAVITY DATA: 383 UNDERWAY MARINE MAGNETIC DATA: 302 MGD77 (international exchange format) 542 Imagery data of multibeam echosounders: 233 Seismics 110 Geological samples database BGM (joint project with French Geological Survey) : core, dredging and diving samples lithologic, stratigraphic and chemical analysis Related Projects : National Bank, DORSALES-RIDGE, EUROSEISMICS, EXTRAPLAC

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 22 Data centre for coastal operational oceanography (CDOCO) General objectives of the PREVIMER project To provide operational services to the actors and users of coastal operational oceanography To develop partnership with the data providers the different users Role of the data centre To organise the collection of real time or delayed mode data To quality check the collected data (in situ data) To archive the collected data To deliver the data to the models To archive the models results To deliver the models results to PREVIMER Web To make the in-situ data available to the different users of the coastal oceanography

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 23 CDOCO : Data circulation Spatial data In situ data Archive In a RDBMS On Hard disk Quality checks CODC Models results PREVIMER Web site Forcing data Reference data

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 24 National geophysical & geological database 449 cruises with multibeam bathymetry

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 25 National geophysical & geological database 541 cruises with magnetism, gravimetry and vertical bathymetry

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 26 National geophysical & geological database BGM Sampling distribution around France BGM : Geological sampling an analysis database core, dredging and diving samples lithologic, stratigraphic and chemical analysis

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 27 Reference data – SEXTANT Coastal GIS Ifremer has developed Sextant, a GIS to facilitate access an use of geographical data and products (cadastral and legal data, bathymetry,…) from various sources, in particular from the Hydrographic Office and the National Geographical Institute, for the implementation of specific programmes Sextant is restricted to Ifremer and to laboratories involved in these programmes Sextant provides tools for data search and extraction at several formats (ESRI, MapInfo, …) compatible with the most used software ( ArcView, GMT, MatLab, Surfer…)..

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 28 Data Circulation Compilation Reformatting Scientific processing & validation in laboratories Data Collection by Research Laboratories on ships Data file Archiving By moored of drifting observing systems Data Management by the Data Centre QC RDBS Server Meta-data + RT data + control system LABORATORIES EDIOS MOORINGS CEDMED ROSCOP/CSR EUROSEISMIC Dissemination W W W server ftp other media

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 29 SISMER Data Management System Metadata SISMER Server Database Scientific Files ASCII, NetCdf RT & Upper ocean Data Coriolis Database www/ifremer.fr/sismerwww.coriolis.eu.org/coriolis/cdc/ Standardized Transfer Protocol (XML) Standardized interface

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 30 DISSEMINATION TOOLS Web portals : NAUTILUS, CORIOLIS Web portal ftp sites for regular disseminations (modellers, IODE..) Manual processing to requests Specific products on Cdrom Annual Cruise Reports on paperprint untill From 2007 only a summary available on paperprint, details on cruises only on the Web

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 31 Nautilus Web portal

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 32 Where? Geographical Selection

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 33 WHAT? WHEN? WHO? HOW?

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 34 Publication Tools Data products on Cdrom data selection through several criterions including geographical areas – several output formats including ODV compatible, NETCDF and MEDATLAS

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 35 Manual Data Dissemination +  web site: about 1000 hit /day (excluding robots), a third of it for the cruise catalogue  Coriols Site: > 1000 data access/year

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 36 Conclusions: Main Recent Activities ( ) Enlarge the « on line data access » -Nautilus- to other databases (mainly related to geosciences data) Devellop a new QC tool (SCOOP²) which take in account both NRT & DM requirements Coordination of SeaDataNet Enlarge the SeaDataNet Concept to geosciences data (Geoseas proposal) Improvement of the communication with the users/providers community: How to improve the visibility and get a better feedback from the users ? How to improve the data compilation? University Courses (E. Moussat, M. Fichaut, G. Maudire) International Conference IMDIS 2008 French Users Forum + letter (in French, 440 copies disseminated)

Computer and Marine Data Department - SISMER 37 Conclusions: SISMER is present on all the main aspect of ocean data management It includes: Conventional data management Physical & bio-chemical data archiving Geophysical, geological data archiving Data from french research vessels Data management for operational oceanography Coastal operational oceanography –CDOCO) Open Ocean operational oceanography –Coriolis Reference Data GIS data With an effort to joint our efforts each time it is possible

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