Geographic information system architecture appplied to oceanographic data acquisition systems

Abstract

In this work a Geographic Information System Architecture for Oceanographic Data is presented. This has been designed by the Unidad de Tecnología Marina to be used into an Oceanographic Data Acquisition System implemented on board research vessels as a complete Service Layer integrated in the real time data services and also in to the archive data retrieval procedure. The main objective was to use opensource solutions and to follow the directives of the Open Geospatial Consortium in order to implement the different data services.