Towards Interoperability and Sustainability

of Ocean Observing Methods

across the Value Chain

Jay Pearlman, IEEE

The Challenge for Ocean Observing and Society

Optimizing and Enhancing Atlantic and Global Observations

➢ To have agreed methods for every activity in

ocean observing research, operations and

applications that are broadly adopted.

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Best Practice Vision

Ocean Best Practices System

Best Practices from Observations to Applications

From Data to Products

The OceanBestPractice System supports the entire

ocean observing community in sharing methods and

developing best practices

We provide discovery and access to relevant and

tested methods from observations to applications

Supporting the globalization of Ocean Best Practices

We are building a long term, sustained capability

IODE recommended establishment of OBPS as a joint IODE-GOOS project, to be considered

by the GOOS steering and then considered for adoption by the IOC Assembly in June.

Ocean Best Practice Working Group

Best Practices Working Group:

Frank Muller-Karger

Arno Lambert

Cristian Muñoz

Francoise Pearlman

Jay Pearlman

Peter Pissierssens

Nick Roden

Pauline Simpson

Mark Bushnell

Pier Luigi Buttigieg

Cindy Chandler

Katja Fennel

Juliet Hermes

Emma Heslop

Johannes Karstensen

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020

research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 633211.

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