- MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University Bremen
Compliant with the FAIR data principles, long-term archiving of bathymetry data from multibeam echosounders –a highly added value for the data life cycle - is the challenging task in the data information system PANGAEA. To cope with the increasing amount of data (“bathymetry puzzle pieces”) acquired from research vessels and the demand for easy “map-based” means to find valuable data, new semi-automated processes and standard operating procedures (SOPs) for bathymetry data publishing and simultaneous visualization are currently developed.
This research is part of the “Underway Research Data” project, an initiative of the German Marine Research Alliance (Deutsche Allianz Meeresforschung e.V., DAM). The DAM “Underway Research Data” project, spanning across different institutions, started in mid-2019. The aim of the project is to improve and unify the constant data flow from German research vessels to data repositories like PANGAEA. This comprises multibeam-echosounder and other permanently installed scientific devices and sensors following the FAIR data management aspects. Thus, exploiting the full potential of German research vessels as instant “underway” mobile scientific measuring platforms.