Original NOPP Project Abstract
Project Abstract
The proposed partnership between oceanographers, engineers,
private entrepreneurs, commercial fish harvesters, and federal agency
representatives will develop a system to collect, telemeter, analyze,
assimilate, and distribute high-quality, synoptic environmental
(hydrography, meteorology, biology) data from the coastal ocean. The
data will be integrated into the U.S. GLOBEC database, which is a
distributed data management system with open access via the internet. In
addition, assessments of fish stocks and proprietary fisheries catch data
will be collected and distributed to some partners, and incorporated into
some data sets, as appropriate. The goal is to create shared, real-time
data management systems that may be used by any individual, program,
or agency for a wide variety of purposes: research, education,
assessment, management, marketing, regulation, modeling, and/or
prediction. The significance of this project lies both in the integrative
functions, aimed at uniting these distinct constituencies into functional
partnerships for data collection and information exchange, and in the
technical functions, aimed at producing an integrated sensor system for
deployment on commercial fishing vessels.