Abstract-With the advent of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and other mobile surface platforms, marine robotics have had substantial impact on the oceanographic sciences. These systems have allowed scientists to collect data over temporal and spatial scales that would be logistically impossible or prohibitively expensive using traditional ship-based measurement techniques. Increased dependence of scientists on such robots has permeated scientific data gathering conducted by ship-based observations or data from fixed moorings. Future field campaigns will not only depend on these platforms, but an entire infrastructure of people, processes, and software; on shore and at sea. Recent field experiments carried out with a number of surface and underwater platforms give clues to how these technologies are coalescing and need to work together. We highlight one such confluence and describe a future trajectory of needs and desires for autonomous marine robotic platforms. We describe a 2010 inter-disciplinary experiment in the Monterey Bay involving multiple platforms, and collaborators with diverse science goals. One important goal was to enable situational awareness, planning and collaboration before, during, and after this large-scale collaborative exercise. We present the overall view of the experiment and describe an important shore-side component, the Oceanographic Decision Support System (ODSS), its impact and future directions leveraging such technologies for field experiments.
Abstract-We have designed, built, tested and fielded a decision support system which provides a platform for situational awareness, planning, observation, archiving and data analysis. While still in development, our interdisciplinary team of computer scientists, engineers, biologists and oceanographers has made extensive use of our system in at-sea experiments since 2010. The novelty of our work lies in the targeted domain, its evolving functionalities that closely tracks how ocean scientists are seeing the evolution of their own work practice, and its actual use by engineers, scientists and marine operations personnel. We describe the architectural elements and lessons learned over the more than two years use of the system.
Abstract. The importance of tracking the provenance of electronic data becomes apparent when data set providers need to also provide metadata describing where the data came from. This need has driven the development of a practical oceanographic data provenance system at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. MBARI's Shore Side Data System is designed to manage data collected, processed, and archived from oceanographic observatories. We describe the provenance tracking aspects of this system and the lessons learned from its implementation in an operational environment.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has collected science data for 15 years from many oceanographic instruments and systems. The Monterey Ocean Observing System, or MOOS, presents new oceanographic data management challenges. To meet the data management requirements, MBARI is developing a flexible, extensible data management solution, the Shore Side Data System (SSDS). This data management solution addresses the complete data life cycle, including instrument (and metadata) development, data ingest, archival, search and access, and visualization and analysis. Working with MOOS infrastructure software, the SSDS can easily support new instruments, data streams, and data sets, from all types of instruments and platforms (for example, moorings, AUVs, and ships). The current status of SSDS development will be presented, including lessons learned from work to date, and the standard tools and protocols which have been adopted..
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.