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SISMERSystèmes d’Informations Scientifiques pour la

MerFrench National Oceanographic Data

Centre

Michèle Fichaut, Loic Petit de la Villéon

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RHistory 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.

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RIFREMER

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 staffAround 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 territories7 vessels (3 for coastal seas) , 1 manned + 1 remote submersibles (Nautile and Victor), various anchored and drifting platforms equipped with scientific instruments.

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RComputer and Marine Data Department (IDM)

B rest cen tre m ain fram eR D B S , G IS , W W W servers

C en tra l arch ivin g b acku p sys temN etw o rk A dm inis tra tion

C o m p u ter Resou rces an d N e tw o rk(R IC )

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R D B S , G IS , W eb servicesS o ftw are d eve lo pm ent

In form atio n S ystem E n gin eering(IS I)

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S c ientific In form atio n Sys tem s fo r the S ea(S IS M E R )

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C o asta l D epartm entD Y N E C O

D epartm entG e o log y & G eop h ysics De p artm ent

(G M )W . R o est

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Reference Geographical DataGIS

Michel BELLOUISPatrick 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 ToselloCéline CORDIER

Operational Oceanography

ARGO/Coriolis DCLoïc PETIT DE LA VILLEON

Christine COATANOANVincent BERNARD

Emilie BRION (temporary)1 person from the Hydrographic Office

Coastal Oceanography (CDOCO)Michèle FICHAUTArmel 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 FICHAUTFrançoise LE HINGRAT

Nolwenn CARNDephine Laffay (temporary)

Coordination of European projects

Eric Moussat

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RSISMER 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.

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RSISMER 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.

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RGeneral 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

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RNational physical and bio-Chemical database

Main data sets in the national archives:CTD profiles 33316 Bottle Cast profiles 43507 Current Meter Time Series 2138 Underway ADCP 222 cruisesThermistor Chain Time Series 125

Sea surface salinity from TSG (cruises) 401 cruisesRelated Projects : GODAR/WESTPAC/MEDAR/MEDATLAS, MATER,

OCTOPUS, ACME, Bay of BISCAYE, SEA-SEARCH, SeaDataNet

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RNational physical and bio-chemical database

Yearly evolution of the number of profi les/ t ime series

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RADCP data processed in near real time

202 ADCP cruises (2001 – 2007)

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ROperational 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 vesselsMoorings (OceanSites project) ,Surface drifting floats and gliders

T, S VERTICAL PROFILES Nb PROFILES 2007 INCREASE %

Argo profiling floats 405 848 101 760 + 33%

buoys, moorings 2 049 833 646 047 + 46%

Vessels (XBT, CTD) 895 744 84 871 + 10%

Total 3 248 909 730 162 + 29%

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Argo profiling floats 6 659 876 2 238 206 +51%

buoys 51 319 664 18 062 998 +54%

Vessels (TSG) 4 163 668 622 650 +18%

Total 62 143 208 20 923 854 +51%

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RCoriolis data centre : 5744 ARGO floats (2994 active)

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RCoriolis data centre : French contribution to GOSUD

21 SHIPS – 2 347 000 measurements

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RCoriolis data centre : underway data

Location map of one month of data

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ROperational Oceanography CORIOLIS data centre

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RFORMATS for physical and chemical data

Catalogues metadata : Oracle database Data either

in ASCII files (physical and geochemical database

auto descriptive ASCII (MEDATLAS) : CTD, BottleNetCDF : ADCP, ARGO

In ORACLE database : Real time data of Coriolis data centre

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RQuality Assurance : delayed mode data

MethodologyQC0 : Check the format and the completeness of the

informationQC1 : Check the location and dateQC2 : Check the data points

ResultsGTSPP Quality flag to each numerical value (Physical-bio-

chemical data)

References - StandardsCIEM-Marine Data Management working Group (CIEM)UNESCO/COI/IODE : International Oceanographic Data & Information Exchange

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RQC1 Control of the location and Date - Data collected in station

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RQC2 - Control of the data points

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RNational 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: 630UNDERWAY MARINE GRAVITY DATA: 383UNDERWAY MARINE MAGNETIC DATA: 302 MGD77 (international exchange format) 542 Imagery data of multibeam echosounders: 233Seismics 110Geological samples database BGM (joint project with French Geological Survey) :

46 664 core, dredging and diving samples42 506 lithologic, stratigraphic and chemical analysis

Related Projects : National Bank, DORSALES-RIDGE, EUROSEISMICS, EXTRAPLAC

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RData 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 centreTo 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

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RCDOCO : Data circulation

Spatial data

In situ data

ArchiveIn a RDBMS On Hard disk

Quality checks

CODC

Models results

PREVIMER Web site

Forcing data

Reference data

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RNational geophysical & geological database

449 cruises with multibeam bathymetry

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RNational geophysical & geological database

541 cruises with magnetism, gravimetry and vertical bathymetry

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RNational geophysical & geological database

BGMSampling distribution

around France

BGM : Geological sampling an analysis database46 664 core, dredging and diving samples42 506 lithologic, stratigraphic and chemical analysis

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RReference 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…)..

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RData Circulation

Compilation

Reformatting

Scientific processing & validation in laboratories

Data Collection by Research Laboratories

on ships

Data file

Data fileData fileData fileData fileData fileData fileData fileData fileData fileData file

Archiving

By moored of drifting observing systems

Data Management by the Data Centre

QC

RDBS ServerMeta-data + RT data

+ control system

LABORATORIES

EDIOS

MOORINGS

CEDMED

ROSCOP/CSR

EUROSEISMIC

Dissemination•W W W server• ftp• other media

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RSISMER Data Management System

MetadataSISMER Server

Database

Scientific FilesASCII, NetCdf

RT & Upper ocean Data Coriolis Database

www/ifremer.fr/sismer www.coriolis.eu.org/coriolis/cdc/

Standardized Transfer Protocol

(XML)

Standardized interface

Standardized interface

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RDISSEMINATION TOOLS

Web portals : NAUTILUS, CORIOLIS Web portalftp sites for regular disseminations (modellers, IODE ..)Manual processing to email requests (sismer@ifremer.fr)Specific products on CdromAnnual Cruise Reports on paperprint untill 2006. From 2007 only a summary available on paperprint, details on cruises only on the Web

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RNautilus Web portal

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RWhere? Geographical Selection

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RWHAT? WHEN? WHO? HOW?

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RPublication Tools

Data products on Cdrom data selection through several criterions including geographical areas – several output formats including ODV compatible, NETCDF and MEDATLAS

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RManual Data Dissemination

About 150 annual manual data delivery from requests issuing from:

IFREMER36%

FrancePublic Sector

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+ web site: about 1000 hit /day (excluding robots), a third of it for the cruise

catalogue Coriols Site: > 1000 data access/year

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RConclusions: Main Recent Activities (2007-2008)

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 requirementsCoordination of SeaDataNetEnlarge 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 2008French Users Forum + letter (in French, 440 copies disseminated)

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RConclusions:

SISMER is present on all the main aspect of ocean data managementIt includes:

Conventional data managementPhysical & bio-chemical data archivingGeophysical, geological data archiving Data from french research vessels

Data management for operational oceanographyCoastal operational oceanography –CDOCO)Open Ocean operational oceanography –Coriolis

Reference DataGIS data

With an effort to joint our efforts each time it is possible

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www.ifremer.fr/sismer/

contact: sismer@ifremer.fr

Thanks for your attention