The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research has been committed over decades to develop and sustain an eResearch infrastructure for coherent discovery, view, dissemination, and archival of scientific data and related information in polar and marine regions. In order to address the increasing heterogeneity of research platforms and respective devices and sensors along with varying project-driven requirements, a generic and modular framework has been built intended to support the flow of sensor observations to archives (O2A) (Koppe et al, 2015). O2A supports the scientific workflows by providing data streaming and transfer solutions to a collaborative workspace ecosystem along with modern analytical tools and infrastructure. Adopting FAIR data principles, the World Data Center PANGAEA ensures data preservation and the various portal solutions provide integrative one-stop-shop frameworks for discovering and re-using the existing metadata, data and data products.
If you are using the O2A Framework in your research please cite:
Koppe, R. , Gerchow, P. , Macario, A. , Haas, A. , Schäfer-Neth, C. and Pfeiffenberger, H. (2015): O2A: A Generic Framework for Enabling the Flow of Sensor Observations to Archives and Publications , OCEANS 2015 Genova . doi: 10.1109/OCEANS-Genova.2015.7271657
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O2A consits of a set of generic solutions in a service-oriented architecture designed to support scientists in their scientific workflows.
The products are opened for use to all, in particular as support to large-scale projects in which Alfred Wegener Institute is involved.
Besides the pages in this WIKI, we offer an YouTube cannal for our webminars and videos as well as examples/templates for Jupyter Notebook using R and Phyton as programming language.
Description and management of devices and sensors
Management of sensor related information including drivers for data access and transfer. A light-weight version of SENSOR is available on board of RV Polarstern which is syncrhnozied with the land version at regular time intervals.
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Acquisition, ingest, stream and monitoring
Data acquisition software available for Polarstern, Neumayer, Aircraft, Heincke and Mya II . See handbooks for research platforms: Polarstern , Heincke , Mya II , Aircraft
Monitoring and download of near real time data
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Data visualization
Graph_based visualization of streammed NRT data including heatmaps and map-based visualization of NRT data along tracklines
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Map-based visualization of near real-time data including satellite data products. Available on board of RV Polarstern. Land-version has limited functionality
Map-based visualization of quality-controlled data originating from AWI internal WebGIS projects
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Repositories and portal
Operates as an Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research. Supports data publishing with DOI and long-term preservation.
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Operates as a repository for publications, presentations and field reports. Restricted to AWI publications
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Data portal for discovery and acces to various types of scientific content. Data products are aggregated in relevant scientific themes under COLLECTIONS
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