European Marine Observation and Data Network
Marine data ingestion and safekeeping in and for EMODnet
The European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) brings together more than 120 organizations to improve the harmonized exchange of marine data. As part of the larger EMODnet context, EMODnet Ingestion 3 continues the work of its predecessors in facilitating the data publication process. This in particular includes the EMODnet Data Ingestion Portal, which helps data managers publish their data following open data principles.
52°North’s role in EMODnet Ingestion focuses on Sensor Web technologies. Based on results from previous projects and currently ongoing international standardization efforts, we support the consortium in addressing challenges related to sharing near real-time observation data streams. This includes not only the development of best practices and guidance, but also the creation of dedicated demonstrators and show cases.
52°North worked with several partners to enable research vessels to share their near real-time tracking data using interoperability standards, such as MQTT and the OGC SensorThings API. We further refined the resulting data publication workflow, built on top of the Eurofleets Automatic Reporting System (EARS), and described it in related publications.
In EMODnet Ingestion III, 52°North focuses on the use of the OGC SensorThings API to provide live event data from research vessels. Another major topic is the integration of OPeNDAP/ERDDAP services with SensorWeb infrastructures. This includes in particular the collaboration on the OGC API – Connected Systems in the respective OGC Standards Working Group. In 2024, our team developed a prototype implementation of this proposed standard, a successor to the OGC Sensor Observation Service and the OGC Sensor Planning Service, based on pygeoapi.
EMODnet Ingestion III has been extended for another two years.
Partners
44 partners from all over Europe
52°North is a subcontractor of Maris B.V., The Netherlands