INTEGRATED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR MANAGEMENT...

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN OCEANOGRAPHY (ITO-98)

GOA, INDIA 12-16 OCTOBER 1998

INTEGRATED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR MANAGEMENT, PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS OF OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA

Nickolay Mikhailov, Alexander Vorontsov, Evgeny Vyazilov, Marsel Shaimardanov.
Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information - World Data
Center (RIHMI-WDC), National Center Oceanographic Data of Russia, 6, Korolyov
St, Obninsk, Kaluga region, 249020, Russia. Fax:(7)(095) 255-22-25.

The recent decade is characterised by the World community's increasing demand for better understanding of and new information on the state the World Ocean. This, in its turn, accounts for the growing attention to the problem of using information resources for different aspects of marine environment, such as Aydrometeorology, chemistry, biology, geology, geophysics, etc.

RIHMI-WDC has a long - term experience in the information support of national and international project for investigating different regions of the World Ocean. To obtain complex and adequate information for studying the World Ocean, we accepted the approach aiming at the integration of various marine data flows which is used as a fundamental concept of data management.

By analogy with technological process in industry, much attention is given to a basic part of information technologies in the form of a co-ordinated sequence of stage, phases, accumulation operations, modelling, transformation and presentation of data.

The approach in question is implemented by several interrelated functional subsystems, such as: data archive for different marine disciplines; integrated data bank; subject - oriented applications to solve specific tasks in information support of research on the World Ocean.

The development of the data archive arises from the necessity for documenting, preparation of metadata and overcoming information incompatibility between data sets by bringing them to the unified lingual basis. Successful implementation of the data archive development provides favourable conditions for data archiving, as will as ensures a multi-version approach to creating the improved means of the information support of research.

When preparing the data archive, we have developed the methods describing the structure of different types of data based on the unified encoders and codes. These methods made it possible to start developing the integrated data bank and creating subject - oriented applications by using data base management systems (DBMS) and geoinformation systems (GIS). In this field we managed to achieve such practical results as a pilot versions of the system of integrated oceanographic data bases in the DBMS's medium Oracle 7 Personal and GIS application (under MapInfo 4.0, ArcView GIS) for access to and visualisation of marine environmental data.

The integrated technology of data management will make it possible to substantially improve the efficiency in accumulating and using the information on the World Ocean.

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