SeaDataNet is a distributed Marine Data Infrastructure for the management of large and diverse sets of data deriving from in situ of the seas and oceans. Read more
The SeaDataNet metadata services give overviews of marine organisations in Europe and their engagement in marine research projects, managing large datasets, and data acquisition by research vessels and monitoring programmes for the European seas and global oceans. Read more
More than 110 national oceanographic data centres and marine data centres from 35 countries riparian to all European seas are now connected to the SeaDataNet infrastructure!
Interoperability is the key to distributed data management system success and it is achieved in SeaDataNet by using common vocabularies, adopting the ISO 19115 metadata standard for all metadata directories, using harmonised Data Transport Formats for data sets delivery and using common quality control protocols and flag scales.
A major objective and challenge in SeaDataNet is to provide an integrated and harmonised overview and access to data resources, managed by distributed data centres. Moreover it is an objective to provide users common means for analysing and presenting data and data products. Therefore the Technical Task Team of SeaDataNet has designed an overall system architecture, and is developing common software tools for data centres and users. Read more
SeaDataNet provides aggregated datasets (ODV collections of all SeaDataNet measurements of temperature and salinity by sea basins) and climatologies (regional gridded field products based on the aggregated datasets) for all the European sea basins. Read more
Information on SeaDataNet events held in the frame of SeaDataCloud, SeaDataNet2 or SeaDataNet european projects, whether they are regular gatherings of consortium members and connected data-centres for coordination and training purposes or the organisation of conferences to engage international audience in marine and ocean data acquisition, management infrastructures and data application.
Enter your own criteria to search and download data from SeaDataNet CDI catalogue
Download the freely available SeaDataNet tools for management of data file formats (NEMO, OCTOPUS), generation of XML metadata descriptions (MIKADO), analysis and visualisation of data (ODV), and interpolation and variational analysis of data sets (DIVA), connection of data centres to SeaDataNet portal (Download Manager), sub-sampling navigation log files (EndsAndBends)
Query the NERC Vocabulary Server (NVS) via the SeaDataNet interface
Download the SeaDataNet aggregated datasets : ODV collections of all SeaDataNet measurements of temperature and salinity by sea basins, or the SeaDataNet climatologies : regional gridded field products based on the aggregated datasets
Access or Contribute to the SeaDataNet metadata catalogues of Marine organisations (EDMO), datasets (EDMED), projects (EDMERP), observing systems (EDIOS), Research cruises (CSR) and data description (CDI)
Using SEANOE, SeaDataNet enables to get a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) on your data making them citable resources.
Access or Contribute to the SeaDataNet Sensor Web demonstrator to publish data using Sensor Web standards or to have a Sensor Web endpoint available for integration into the Helgoland Sensor Web Viewer
SeaDataNet brokerage service for discovery of international marine data collections
The SeaDataCloud VRE is a pilot application of such services and supports research with marine data and SeaDataNet tools in the cloud.