Applications: | There are several ways to classify all the applications. From a checkpoint perspective, “Applications” means gathering all activities that exploit marine data products. |
Characteristics: | “Characteristic” is the terminology used in MSFD. It means either a variable of an observed or estimated phenomenon (eg depth) or a geographical feature (eg roads, protected areas) represented by a spatial object with a vector (point, line, polygon) or raster geometry (eg image). |
Data: | Numbers and information pertaining to observations made in time and space. The data considered here are meteo-marine, oceanographic and freshwater physical, biological, chemical and geological variables as well as data related to human activities. |
Monitoring data: | Data that are collected by an instrument at a particular place and time and that are repeated periodically in order to monitor changes over time. They may be raw or processed to make them interoperable with other data. |
Data layer: | Aggregated data, assimilated, interpolated or extrapolated values that provide a complete coverage over the whole area at certain dates. The data can be two, three or four dimensional (including time) depending on the nature of the data and the needs of the user. |
Dataset: | A “dataset” is a collection of data. It can be a time series, a lithological description of a marine sample, a gridded data set such as a DTM, a hydrodynamic model output, a GIS dataset ie a set of geographical features with a vector geometry such as the polygonal limits of protected areas or a raster geometry such as a satellite image, or a table of values in a publication.A dataset can be made up of several files (eg. seismic data files recorded along the same line). A database can be considered as a dataset or a dataset series. |
Dataset series/Collection of data sets: | A dataset series (term used by ISO) is a collection of datasets sharing (usually or in principle) the same specifications of production: see the Inspire Geoportal. To avoid any misunderstanding, the term “collection of datasets” will be used. |
Input Dataset: | This is the collection of existing data to be inputted to the Challenges. |
Metadata: | Information on one or more aspects of data, such as time and date of creation, owner of data, standards used, access rights. |
GIS contiguous: | A set of data, points, gridded or polygons that can be represented on a map. |
Tile: | A spatial unit by which data are organized, subdivided, and stored. A tile can be a regular, geometric shape (e.g., corresponding to a map sheet) or an irregular polygon. |
Marine or region/subregion: | A specified area or sub-area of Europe’s seas, as defined within the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. These are specific instances of sea-basins. |
Sea baseline: | A baseline is the line from which the seaward limits of a state’s territorial sea is calculated. |
Sea basin: | A recognisable geographical area of marine waters, often confined by land to form a distinct body of water. |
Thematic assembly groups: | “Consortia of organizations that assemble data from all data centres on specific themes”. Thematic assembly groups are divided into 7 discipline-based themes: bathymetry, geology, physics, chemistry, biology, physical habitats and human activity. It includes EU initiatives other than Emodnet projects, such as Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES), the Data Collection Framework in fisheries. |
Environmental matrices: | The environment matrix is the environment to which a characteristic is related and defined as: Air, Water (Marine or Fresh), Biota/Biology, Seabed, Human activities. |
GIS: | A geographic information system, also known as a geospatial information system, is any system for capturing, storing, analyzing and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the Earth. Within the marine domain, it is regulated by Inspire. |
Assessment criteria: | The criteria are focused on two questions: “what” is made available to the challenges and “how”? They are derived from the quality principles of the ISO19113 standard for geographical information which concerns 99% of the data needed by the challenges and additional criteria related to services recognized in the literature as key elements for the establishment of fitness for use. |
Fitness for use or fitness for purpose: | Within the ISO 8402 framework, fitness for purpose is understood as the “totality of a product characteristics that bear on its ability to satisfy stated and implied needs” and it includes the ease with which a user can obtain data. The geographical information standards developed ‘to describe geographical information’” (ISO 19115) and “to assists a data user in determining a product’s ability to satisfy the requirements for their particular application” (ISO 19113, ISO 19157) seem an appropriate basis for the establishment of their fitness for use. |
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- ACCOBAMS
Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea Mediterranean Sea and Contigous Atlantic Area
- AEMET
State Meteorological Agency (ES)
- AIS
Automatic Identification System
- API
American Petroleum Institute
- ARGO
system for observing temperature, salinity, and currents in the Earth’s oceans
- ARPEGE
Research Project on Small and Large Scales
- AVISO
Archiving, Validation and Interpretation of Satellite Oceanographic Data
- BirdLife
Global Species Programme collates and analyses information on all the world’s birds
- BODC
British Oceanographic Data Centre
- BOUSSOLE
Buoy for the acquisition of long-term optical time series
- Cal/Val
Calibration/Validation
- CAMP
Coastal Area Management Programme
- CARBONOCEAN
Marine carbon sources and sinks assessment
- CetaceanAlliance
Preserving Whales and Dolphin of the Mediterranean Sea
- CFP
Common Fisheries Policy
- CH4
Methane
- Chl
Chlorophyll
- CISL
Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
- CLIM012
Global and European sea level rise
- CLIM013
Sea surface Temperature
- CLIM9434
Ocean heat content
- CLS
Collecte Localisation Satellites (FR)
- CLU
CLU s.r.l. (IT)
- CMCC
Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (IT)
- CNR
National Research Council (IT)
- CO2
Carbon Dioxide
- COCONet
Continuously Operating Caribbean GPS Observational Network
- CODAS
Consolidated Operations and Delay Analysis System
- Copernicus
European Programme for the establishment of a European capacity for Earth Observation
- COST
Cooperation in Science and Technology
- CPR
Continuous Plankton Recorder
- Cs-137
Caesium-137
- CSDMS
Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System
- CYCOFOS
Cyprus Coastal Ocean Forecasting and Observing System
- DAC
Data Assembly Center
- DCF
Data Collection Framework
- DCR
Data Collection Regulation
- DDT
Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane
- DG-MARE
Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
- DIC
Dissolved Inorganic Carbon
- DIN
Dissolved Inorganic Nitrogen
- DIP
Dissolved Inorganic Phosphorous
- DIRM
Inter-Regional direction of Mediterranean Sea
- DON
Dissolved Organic Nitrogen
- DOP
Dissolved Organic Phosphorus
- DTM
Digital Terrain Model
- E-AIMS
Euro-Argo Improvements for the GMES Marine Service
- E-HYPE
Pan-European hydrological model
- E-SURFMAR
Surface Marine Operational Service
- EC
European Commission
- ECMWF
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
- ECV
Essential Climate Variables
- EDF-EN
EDF Energies Nouvelles (FR)
- EDMED
European Directory of Marine Environmental Data
- EEA
European Environmental Agency
- EEC
European Economic Community
- EEZs
Exclusive Economic Zones
- EGO
European Glider Observatory
- EIONet
European Environment Information and Observation Network
- EMODnet
European Marine Observation and Data Network
- EMSA
European Maritime Safety Agency
- EMSO
European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and Water Column Observatory
- ERIC
European Research Infrastructure Consortium
- ESA
European Space Agency
- ESFRI
European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures
- ESI
Environmental Sensitivity Index
- ESONET
European Seas Observatory NETwork
- EU
European Union
- EUMETNET
European National Meteorological Services
- EUNIS
European Nature Information System
- Euro-Argo
European contribution to ARGO program
- EUROGOOS
European Global Ocean Observing System
- EUROSION
European initiative for sustainable coastal erosion management
- EuroSITES
European Open Ocean Observatory Network
- EUROWATERNET
European Environment Agency’s Monitoring and Information Network for Inland Water Resources
- EUSeaMap
Mapping European seabed habitats
- EWGs
Expert Working Groups
- FAO
Food and Agriculture Organization
- FEM
Association de Préfiguration de l’IEED France Energies Marines (FR)
- FishStat
Universal software for fishery statistical time series
- FixO3
Fixed point Open Ocean Observatory network
- FP7
Seventh Framework Programme
- GDAC
Global Data Assembly Center
- GEBCO
General Bathimetric Chart of the Oceans
- GEO
Group on Earth Observation
- Geoportal
type of web portal used to find and access geographic information
- GEOSS
Global Earth Observation System of Systems
- GES
Good Environmental Status
- GFCM
General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean
- GIS
Geographic information system
- GISC
GMES in-situ coordination
- GLA
Green Line Association
- GMES
Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
- GNOO
National Group for Operational Oceanography
- GOOS
Global Ocean Observing System
- GPS
Global Positioning System
- GRDC
Global Runoff Data Center
- GSA
Geographical Sub-Areas
- H2S
Sulfuric Acid
- HAB
Harmful Algal Bloom
- HadISST
Hadley Centre Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature data set
- HCMR
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (GR)
- HF
High Frequency
- HO
Hydrostatic Office
- HyMeX
Hydrological cycle in the Mediterranean Experiment
- ICCAT
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas
- ICES
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
- ICZM
Integrated Coastal Zone Management
- IEO
Instituto Español de Oceanografía
- IFREMER
Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (FR)
- IH-Cantabria
Fundación Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental de Cantabria (ES)
- IHO
International Hydrographic Organization
- IMEDEA
Mediterranean Advanced Studies Institute
- IMO
International Maritime Organization
- IMP
Integrated Maritime Policy
- INGV
National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (IT)
- INSPIRE
Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community
- IOC
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
- IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- IRIS-SES
Integrated Regional monitoring Implementation Strategy in the South European Seas
- ISAC
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
- ISCOMAR
Isleña Marítima de Contenedores
- ISO
International Organization for Standardization
- ISPRA
Italian National Protection Agency
- IUCN
International Union for Conservation of Nature
- IUU
Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated
- JCOMM
Joint WMO-IOC Commission on Marine Meteorology
- JERICO
Towards a joint European research infrastructure network for coastal observatories
- JRC
Joint Research Centre
- LAT
Lowest Astronomical Tide
- LBS
Land Base Sources
- LIFE
EU’s financial instrument supporting environmental, nature conservation and climate action projects throughout the EU
- MAP
Mediterranean Action Plan.
- MAPMED
Management of port areas in the Mediterranean Sea Basin
- MARBEF
Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
- MARBOUND
VLIZ Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase
- Med-Hycos
Mediterranean Hydrological Cycle Observing System
- MEDAR/MEDATLAS
Mediterranean Data Archaeology and Rescue
- MEDESS4MS
Mediterranean Decision Support System for Marine Safety
- MEDISEH
Mediterranean Sensitive Habitats
- MEDPAN
MEDiterranean Protected Areas Network
- MEDPOL
Programme for the Assessment and Control of Marine Pollution in the Mediterranean
- MEDSLIK
Mediterranean oil spill model
- MNHN
Inventaire National du Patrimoine Naturel
- MONGOOS
Mediterranean Operational Network for the Global Ocean Observing System
- MOOSE
Mediterranean Ocean Observing System on Environment
- MPA
Marine Protected Area
- MRE
Marine Renewable Energy
- MRI
Marine Research Infrastructure
- MS
Member States
- MSFD
Marine Strategy Framework Directive
- MSP
Maritime Spatial Planning
- MSSD
Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development
- MyO
MyOcean, Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting
- NATURA 2000
centrepiece of EU nature & biodiversity policy
- NAUSICAA
National Sea Centre
- NKUA
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- NRT
Near Real Time
- NUTS
Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics
- OCEANS-CAT
OCEANS Catalonia International SL (ES)
- OCHA
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
- OGC
Open Geospatial Consortium
- OSE
Observing System Experiment
- OSOCC
Oil Spill Operations and Co-ordination Centre
- OSSE
Observing System Simulation Experiments
- OWF
Offshore Wind Farms
- P01
BODC Parameter Usage Vocabulary
- P02
SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
- P03
SeaDataNet Agreed Parameter Groups
- PAL
Passive Acoustic Listener
- PANGAEA
Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science
- PCB
polychlorinated biphenyls
- pCO2
partial pressure of carbon dioxide
- PERSEUS
Policy-oriented marine Environmental Research in the Southern European Seas
- pH
Acidity
- PLOCAN
Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands
- PODAC
Product-Oriented Design And Construction Cost Model
- POSEIDON
Applications of Seismic Oceanography
- PROTECTEDPLANET
The latest initiative harnessing the World Database on Protected Areas
- PSMSL
Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level
- Pu-239
Plutonium-239
- RAC-SPA
Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas
- RAMSAR
Convention on Wetlands of International Importance
- REMPEC
Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea
- REMSS
Remote Sensing Systems
- RESPONSES
project investigating EU policy action on climate change
- RI
Research Infrastructure
- RITMARE
Italian Marine Research Program
- RivDIS
Global River Discharge
- RMS
Root Mean Square Error
- ROOS
Regional Operational Oceanographic Systems
- RORO
Roll-on/roll-off
- S-AWS
Shipborne Automated Weather Stations
- SACOSTA
Environmental Sensitivity of the Coastline
- SAR
Search and Rescue
- SCREAM
Spatially Continuous Resource Economic Analysis Model
- SDN
SeaDataNet, pan-european infrastructure for ocean & marine data management
- SeaBASS
SeaWiFS Bio-optical Archive & Storage System
- SEDNET
European Sediment Network
- SESAME
Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East
- SHOM
Service hydrographique et océanographique de la marine
- SIH
French Fisheries Information System
- SKIRON
The regional weather forecasting system
- SOCIB
Balearic Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System (ES)
- SONEL
Système d’Observation du Niveau des Eaux Littorales
- SOOP
Ship Of Opportunity Programme
- SPA
Special Protection Area
- SPAMI
Specially Protected Areas of Mediterranean Importance
- SPLASHCOS
Submerged Prehistoric Archaeology and Landscapes of the Continental Shelf
- SST
Sea Surface Temperature
- STAG
Scientific and Technical Advisory Group
- STECF
Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries
- TAC
Total Allowable Catch
- TBT
Tributyltin
- TMOOS
Marine Technologies, Operational Oceanography and Sustainability Department
- TN = Tot_N
Total Nitrogen
- TOC
Total Inorganic Carbon
- TOSCA
Tracking Oil Spills & Coastal Awareness network
- TP= Tot_P
Total Phosphorus
- TPT
triphenyltin
- UCY
University of Cyprus (CY)
- UHSLC
University of Hawaii Sea Level Center
- UN
United Nations
- UNCLOS
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
- UNEP
United Nations Environment Programme
- UNESDO
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- WASP
Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program
- WDPA
World Database on Protected Areas
- WFD
Water Framework Directive
- WISE
Water Information System for Europe
- WMO
World Meteorological Organisation
- WMOP
SOCIB Western Mediterranean Sea Operational forecasting system
- WRF
Weather Research and Forecasting
- WSAG
Water System Analysis Group
- WWF
World Wildlife Fund