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Part III. Appendix 4: User Outreach• Ensure relevancy of observations to public health users by identifying the update intervals of thedata sets and adequacy of the frequency of measurement.- Timely measurements and posting of data are important to use of and incorporation into apublic health response to a situation. An example of this might be the issuance of swimmingadvisories when water samples exceed standards or response to seafood- related illness outbreak.Nearshore sensing stations producing real-time data streams of swells, tides, and waveheights could be useful in the public health and safety issues for swimmers, surfers, and fishermen.Other data sets may yield sufficient coverage monthly, seasonally, or annually.• Evaluate data sets for level of processing (raw data points vs. analyzed with interpretation). Regulatorycompliance requirements at the federal, state, and local levels and the subsequent usableproduct will require processing and interpretation; however, raw data could be available to specifieduser groups, i.e., researchers.- Data sets range from local paper files to national digitized databases. Within these instrumentsusers may find raw data, for example, telemetry from buoys such as tide levels thatmay be seen at http://www.co-op.noaa.gov/. Some databases contain numeric data pointswith some interpretation as is published on BEACH water monitoring in Alabama http://www.adem.state.al.us/FieldOps/Monitoring/monitoring or data which have been interpretedaccording to state standards as seen on the Florida Marine Research Institute’s Red Tide Statusor satellite images, http://floridamarine.org/features/category_main.asp?id=1884. Thedegree of processing influences the extent to which the data may be used and by whom. Forexample, research may find numeric data points (CFU) more useful than a Red, Yellow, Greenwarning system, but for swimmers the color code will suffice.• Determine in what formats data are stored and how should new data elements or objects be designedand delivered.- Paper,- Digital with substantial manipulation of format to meet platform specifications,- Digital with easy conversion and assimilation into specified platform.• Evaluate and/or develop new technologies for the detection of human pathogens, indicators ofpollution, or hazardous conditions using remote sensing or permanent monitoring stations forthe timely communication of information used in public health decisions. The development ofnew technologies should be integrated into the enhanced platforms envisioned for the IOOSsystem (moored buoys, satellite sensors, remote sensing, etc.)245