INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN OCEANOGRAPHY (ITO-98) GOA, INDIA 12-16 OCTOBER 1998

Ocean data sets can contain a lot of variables from different sources and with unlike structure (surface spatial distributed measurements, vertical profiles, time or underway series, zooplankton net tows, etc.). It is a very complicated task to combine these interdisciplinary data sets and to provide the possibility to store and analyze them jointly. Industry standard database management systems are not enough suitable to perform this task.

Special unique database management system (OceanBase) has been developed to work with large sets of interdisciplinary oceanographic data. It works under Windows-95, has a customized user-friendly multi-windows interface, and provides quick and comfortable work with the entire database. System allows to view, sort, select, process, combine, and export all necessary data and metadata. OceanBase supports work as with "standard" types of oceanographic data (profiles, surface) as with layer type of data, for example, with data of the zooplankton net tows. User can create "virtual" stations combining data from different cruises according to defined search criteria. It is possible to calculate mean profiles, spatial distributions, various statistics, etc. Data and information in the different windows are cross-linked and synchronized. Many graphic tools (plots, maps, and histograms) are embedded into the system.

The OceanBase demo version is distributed on CD-ROMs. It can be very easily installed, and supplied with well-designed presentation introducing with the main features of the system.

Now OceanBase is used to work with the Black Sea interdisciplinary historical database created within the framework of the NATO TU-Black Sea Project. This database contains information on 116 basic physical, chemical and biological variables measured in the Black Sea in 1964-1996 (26,035 stations; 8,364,731 data values).

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