1. THE UNIFIED STATE SYSTEM OF INFORMATION ON THE GLOBAL OCEAN On raising public awareness about ocean issues by means of ESIMO Information System http://data.oceaninfo.ru Evgeny Vyazilov Russian Research Institute for Hydrometeorological Information – World Data Centre of Roshydromet International Conference 50 Years of Education and Awareness Raising for Shaping the Future of the Oceans and Coasts 27-30 April, 2010, St.-Petersburg, Russian Federation

2. Purpose and functions of ESIMO – information system designed to support marine-related activities in the Russian Federation through provision of the integrated information on the global ocean available from marine- oriented information systems of the Russian Federal Agencies and Russian Academy of Sciences Functions  To ensure information and technological interaction between information systems of different agencies  To develop and integrate information resources of ESIMO  To provide an access to information for the global ocean study, development and use  To enable information exchange with international information systems

3. ESIMO participants Roshydromet MNR of RF. RF Ministry of Defense RF Foreign Ministry RF Fed. Guard Service FSB of RF RF Min. of Infor. & Comm. RF Min. of Economic Dev. RF Fed. Service for Fishery RF Ministry of Industry and Energy RF Ministry of Transport Ministry Education, Science of RF RAS Inter-Agency Commission Roshydromet RIHMI-WDC Cross-sector issues Coordination Guidance support

4. Support of ESIMO operations Regulatory support ESIMO regulation, Operating procedures and rules of ESIMO Centres (21) Guidelines and Manuals on ESIMO operation (5 documents) Information support Common codes and classifiers (ISO, GOST, S57, XML, ЕСИМО extensions) Metadata formats, request/response messages and data communication protocols (XML, ISO, HTTP) Technological support System-wide information technologies for interaction (4) and provision of services (5) Thematic information technologies for data preparation in ESIMO Centres (89) Technical Support Hardware-Software System (HSS) of system-wide technologies – firewalls and Web-servers, Application server, database (DB) server HSS of thematic technologies – DB server and software systems of user workstations Institutional Support Organizations of 12 Ministries (Agencies) and RAS – Centres of ESIMO (21) Staff in ESIMO Centres to operate ESIMO technologies Decision of Government of RF from 25.12.2005 No 836 “On the unified state system of information on the Global ocean”

5. Parameters of situation in the Global Ocean Meteo conditions Hydro physics PollutionIce Geocryology Geology-Geophysics Biology Hazardous ocean events Marine environment – natural processes Marine-related activities – marine facilities Ships and shipping Shipbuilding Emergency situations Mapmaking and oil-and- gas bearing regions Socio-economic conditions Sea portsExploration of bioresources Exploration of mineral resources Observations Summarizing Analysis Forecasts Point, profile, grid, objects files DB, structuring files, catalogues of files, applications

6. General chart of ESIMO operation ESIMO Centers install “Data Provider” software, connect local data systems and register resources Information on data comes to the resources directory on a regular basis The system checks availability of data sources on a regular basis Maintenance of resources directory Maintenance of user directory Development of user workstations Interaction with distributed DB Search and delivery of information on request and on schedule ESIMO statistics, etc. Monitoring of SDDB – resources and data sources in ESIMO Centers Access to local data Unification of codes and data structures Navigation of requests and delivery of data to the portal and workstations Server of integration Internet Data Provider ESIMO Portal

7. Information services provided by ESIMO tools and resources Access to ready-to-use tools and resources – information, metadata, applications Delivery of information through the “push” technology”: information on inputs to resources, news, operational information, etc. Access through the ”request- response” technology: - quick search by key words and phrases and by subject heading list - extended search by several attributes Services provided on the basis of specialized workstations: Federal level (Roshydromet, Мin. of Transport, MES, MNR, Directorate for Navigation and Oceanography, RAS) Regional level («Arctic», «Caspian Sea», Northwestern Federal District – slices of information space by geographical regions Local level (North marine shipping, Navy НМС)

8. Access to information on the situation in the Global ocean

9. On-line information services provided to marine-related activities Общий вид АРМ

10. Information communication technology for interaction with automatic system of National Centre of management in crisis situations ESIMO workstations for the National Centre of management in crisis situations Information service for EMERCOM

11. For examples of resources for population The historical information for natural disasters The on-line information for natural disasters Radioactive state for RF Climatic Atlas for Russian Seas Electronic text-book for Russian Seas Metadata News for marine activity and marine environment Interactive map for observing, analytic, forecasting, climatic data

12. ESIMO information resources ESIMO Centres interact with information systems of different agencies and provide information to ESIMO 19 Data Providers in ESIMO Centres, 1450 resources - - 65 % marine environment, 35 % - marine- related activities - 25 % operational, 75% - historical data - 30% DB, 70 % - data files and applications ESIMO portal and workstations Traffic - 36 Gbyte of information monthly http://data.oceaninfo.ru 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Over 1500 visits daily RU Countries of far abroad Countries of near abroad

13. The perspective of development Metadata ЕСИМО Integration technology E2EDM (Integrated resources) Decision maker Worksta tions Observing, analytic, forecasting, climatic data Software agent Population Knowledge Scientists, experts, decision maker Decision maker Mobil tools (communicator, net book) Sensor screens, panels Forms of visualization Tables, maps, diagrams, graphics, html, ppt

14. Conclusion A users may receive the complex information in any time, any place, any region from different agency systems by ESIMO Portal Developed workstations «Marine situational Centre Roshydromet», «National Centre of management in crisis situations», «Regional centres of Hydrometeorological Service» For wide using of ESIMO it need: - To develop the new methods and forms of users access to information resources - To regulate the questions of interagency information interaction for using ESIMO - To including the data from ESIMO to process to information service of marine activities On the exploitations of ESIMO impact the next problems: - Complication of ESIMO software – it need the more high automation level of ESIMO management. Now it is using Tivoli monitoring system IBM - The very big internet traffic. For decision of this problem the «mirror» ESIMO portals are developing in The main computer centre Roshydromet (Moscow). It need the using of gigabit channels between ESIMO centres, ESIMO Portal and users. The ESIMO are including 23 centres, more 1450 information resources, 15 system technologies, 87 thematic technologies, 198 software components, 163 DB, 10 users workstations

15. THE UNIFIED STATE SYSTEM OF INFORMATION ON THE GLOBAL OCEAN THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION http://data.oceaninfo.ru