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Learn about the challenges of accessing spatial data and metadata for observing system platforms, such as buoys, and how to improve data access for various observation parameters like surface winds and water temperature.
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Improving Data Access to NOAA Platform Location Metadata Matt Austin, NOAA 2011 EDM Conference
Observing System Platforms • Observing Systems are composed of one or more platforms/stations • Platforms can be point features • A buoy is a example of a platform • Platforms measure one or more observation parameter • Ex: surface winds, water temperature, wave height
Barriers to data access: Obtaining location metadata for observing system platforms • Spatial location of observing system platforms and data use metadata not always available online • Spatial data location=Latitude, Longitude • Data Use metadata= Attributes linked to the spatial location that allows analysis such filtering and searching • Not always updated frequently • Not always complete • Not always in a standard format • Information is sometimes developed for use as a single system rather then as a part of a set of systems • data use metadata attributes do not always follow naming convention standards