Table 1:
Regional Coastal Ocean Observing Systems
RCOOS Name Northeast Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing System (NERACOOS) Mid-Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (MACOORA) Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA) Caribbean Regional Association (CaRA) Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System (GCOOS) Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCOOS) Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System (CeNCOOS) Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS) Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS) Pacific Islands Integrated Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS) Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) Geographic Extent Maine to Massachusetts, including the Canadian Provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Cape Cod, Massachusetts to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
North Carolina to the Atlantic coast of Florida
Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the island of Navassa Gulf coast of Florida to Texas Southern California Bight
Central and Northern California
Oregon and Washington
Alaska Hawaii and Pacific Islands
Great Lakes
tinue to collect, assemble, and manage the data that are produced. The DIF infrastructure provides the necessary connections to and translations among these various, distinct networks of ocean observations to enable increased data compatibility, accessibility, and utility for host of end-user purposes. Distributed data access will be accomplished using a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web-services based approach, to ensure consistency with the larger Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) and U.S. IOOS Data Management and Communications Plan. Within the context of IOOS, SOA refers to an approach to organizing and utilizing distributed data sources operated by independent organizations. The establishment of community-wide data standards is an essential, yet challenging, first step in this process to advance interoperability among these distributed sources.
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For that reason, a national Data Management and Communications (DMAC) team formed and defined a data standards process that was published in 2006. This process has not been exercise due to lack of funding. The NOAA IOOS program has the resources to initiate the DMAC process. On 1 October, 2007, Ocean.US and NOAA issued a joint letter announcing that the DMAC process would begin accepting standards. The initiation of the DMAC Standards process is an exciting and necessary step towards data interoperability.
Regional Capacity
The eleven RCOOSs and corresponding regional management structures (Table 1.) provide a vital and vast network to identify and address regional priorities, augment the geographic coverage of the U.S. IOOS, and ensure strong customer focus and connection. Each RCOOS is
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