To ensure a solid foundation for developing ocean observing systems, this project has been funded by the NOAA Coastal Services Center (Regional Integrated Ocean Observing System) to enable implementation of QA/QC standards into the evolving OpenGeospatial Consortium (OGC) – Sensor Web Enablement frameworks. For four focus areas (wave, in situ currents, CTD and dissolved oxygen), the project enables the development of specifications, generation data dictionaries and the definition of relevant SensorML profiles. The products are to provide tutorials and tools for implementation and the project supports implementation on existing local data nodes, through OOSTethys SOS services. The project deliverables will be publicized by cooperation with existing community-building programs, such as MMI, CICOR, ACT and QARTOD.

Welcome to the Q2O Homepage

Posted January 15th, 2008 by dadmin

The first year of the project is quickly coming to a close. Community participation was great! Many of the QARTOD team leaders have participated in all of our four meetings held throughout the first year. There are demonstration documents for your review and comment. Please send all comments to jfredericks@whoi.edu (subject line: Q2O Year 1 Review).

A list of meetings is available in the Meeting Archives.

The 'deliverables' are available for your review, but are still in a preliminary draft mode. Demonstrated are the Q2O vocabularies, which are registered with the MMI "Registry" and have enabled us to use URLs in our demonstration SWE instances. Also available is the MVCO ADCP Waves instance (SensorML and unregistered vocabularies). Most of the QARTOD recommended tests were implemented and QC flags are reported with the getObservations return. The CDIP Waves demonstration is a work in progress and will soon be released, demonstrating QARTOD recommended QC tests for buoy observations. We are currently working with USF and VIMS to demonstrate the Q2O concepts. Having these four participants will enable us to identify common threads to build a more generic waves data profile.

Over the next few months, we will be moving from the waves implementation to currents.

Janet Fredericks
19 December, 2008