2013 - University College Cork

RESEARCH PROJECTS
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Geomatics and Remote Sensing
NETMAR: OPEN SERVICE NETWORK FOR MARINE
ENVIRONMENTAL DATA
Research Centre/Department/School: CMRC
Start Year: 2010
End Year: 2013
Funding Body: FP7
Researchers: Declan Dunne
Contact PI: Declan Dunne (d.dunne@ucc.ie)
Website: http://netmar.nersc.no
The NETMAR project will develop a pilot European Marine Information System (EUMIS) that
will enable users to search, download and integrate satellite, in situ and model data from ocean
and coastal areas. EUMIS will be a user-configurable system offering flexible discovery of data and
geo-processing services. Access to these services and also workflow chaining facilities for these
services will be based on open web GIS standards. EUMIS will be a distributed system where a
number of services and subsystems will be integrated and made interoperable by means of semantic
technologies. EUMIS will use a semantic framework coupled with ontologies for identifying
and accessing distributed data.
The implementation of EUMIS will be done through a set of case studies from different marine
application domains, ranging from near real-time monitoring and forecasting of marine pollution
to the exploration of long-term historical time series variables for climate change assessment. The
EUMIS subsystems will be based on open source software, and will be offered as contributions to
the SISE (Single Information Space in Europe for the Environment) and SEIS (Shared Environmental
Information System). The subsystems will support the implementation of the INSPIRE
Directive and be of benefit to the implementation of GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment
and Security) and GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems).
CMRC is leading work packages concerning the specification of the NETMAR System Architecture
and Semantic Framework. CMRC is also leading the coastal web atlas interoperability pilot
which is targeted towards the International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN) user community.
KEY PUBLICATIONS & OUTPUTS
D2.1: Review of projects, initiatives and technologies addressing system
architectures for distributed Environmental Information Systems
D2.4.2: Authoritative specification of NETMAR system architecture
D3.2: Review of available ontology tooling
D3.3: Review of available ontologies and their interfaces
D3.8: Prototype interlinked ontology resource fully populated to
NETMAR requirements
D4.1: Review semantic frameworks
D4.4.2: Implementation of semantic framework
D4.5: Authoritative specification of semantic framework
D5.1.1: Data delivery services – Basic data services
D5.1.2: Data delivery services – Semantically enabled data services
D5.2.1: Data processing services – Basic processing services
D5.2.2: Data processing services – Semantically enabled processing services
D5.3.1: WPS server – Basic WPS package
D5.3.2: WPS server – Fully semantically enabled processing services
D6.5: Final version of NETMAR portal (http://eumis.nersc.no)
D7.7: NETMAR cookbooks for data delivery and processing services
D7.8: NETMAR cookbooks for semantic data delivery and processing services
D7.9.2: ICAN semantic interoperability pilot cookbooks
NETMAR semantic discovery client which
uses ontologies for identifying and accessing
distributed data and geo-processing services.