OCEANS IE

The Oceans Science Interoperability Experiment (Oceans IE)  brings together the  Ocean-Observing community to advance interoperability of ocean observing systems by using Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Standards. The Oceans IE Phase I investigated the use of OGC Web Feature Services (WFS) and OGC Sensor Observation Services (SOS) for representing and exchanging point data records from fixed in-situ marine platforms. The Oceans IE phase I produced an engineering best practices report about how to implement SOS serviced and the OOSTethys reference implementations were adjusted to follow these best practices. Oceans IE Phase II will build on Phase I and will continue the improvement and use of OGC specifications in the marine community. Kickoff date for Oceans IE Phase II will be March 20th 2009. 

Related Links:

• Summary of potential topics to be covered in the Oceans IE Phase II
  
• Read plan for the Oceans IE Phase II
  
• Participate in the Oceans IE Phase II
  
• Download Oceans IE Phase I Report
• Download SOS Reference Implementation