Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Sensors
Reference Documents

Below are links to material for workshop preparation and general information about ocean observing systems.

NSF Documents

NSF Project Proposal
(Please see the references section at the end of this document for additional sources of information.)

NSF Program Solicitation: Sensors and Sensor Networks

MARS Documentation

MARS Cabled Observatory User Requirements (Last Revised 3/22/04)

MARS Cabled Observatory Design Requirements - Rev. A (Last Revised 6/18/04)

ORION

Home Page

 

NEPTUNE-US

 

NEPTUNE-Canada

 

SCOTS Report

 

Monterey Accelerated Research System (MARS) 

Data Management and Archiving Systems (DMAS) Technology

 

         See DMAC under Data Subsystem on the home page for:

http://www.ocean.us/

 

Data Interoperability

http://bbe.sdsc.edu/~hellyj/papers/Interop_I.pdf/

 

            Metadata:

            http://bios.dfg.ca.gov/metadata.asp

 

            http://dublincore.org/about/

 

  http://dublincore.org/documents/dc-rdf-notes/

Quality Assurance of Real-Time Ocean Data (QARTOD)

Workshop Report

 

Workshop Website

Data Grids

 

            http://www.globus.org/datagrid/

 

            http://www.ggf.org/

 

            http://www.gridcomputing.com/

 

Smart Sensor Standards (IEEE 1451)

 

            IEEE 1451 Standard           

 

            Overview article on 1451 

Smart Sensor Power Point Presentation from CMU

            Smart Sensor White paper  

Existing Observatory and Infrastructure Efforts

 

ROADNET

 

SIAM

 

SIAM Oceans 2001 Paper

 

MVCO      

Other Recommended Websites from Workshop

Chemical and Biological Sensors for Time-Series Research: Current Status and New DIrections (Daly et al. 2004)

Instruments and Sensors as as Network Services: Making Instruments First Class Members of the Grid (Bramley et al.)

Representational State Transfer (REST)

Overview of REST Principles

MTS Journal Publications:

An integrated approach to ocean observatory data acquisition/management and infrastructue control using web services 

Cabled ocean observatory systems

Enabling Ocean Research in the 21st Century: Implementation of a Network of Ocean Observatories

National Science Foundation Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)
 (Download a copy of the OOI brochure at the Geo Prose website.)

NEPTUNE Science Planning Documents

MBARI Ocean Observing System (MOOS)

 

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