Improving ocean-glider's payload with a new generation of spectrophotometric PH sensor

Ocean gliders have clearly become nowadays useful autonomous platforms addressed to measure a wide range of seawater parameters in a more sustainable and efficient way. This new ocean monitoring approach has implied the need to develop smaller, faster and more efficient sensors without reducing key features like accuracy, resolution, time-response, among others, in order to fit the glider operational capabilities. This work is aiming to present the latest development stages of a new spectrophotometric pH sensor, its integration process into a Wave Glider SV3 platform and the preliminary results derived from an offshore mission performed in subtropical waters between the Canary Islands and Cape Verde archipelagos.Peer Reviewe

Integration in GEOSS

Integration and usage of the GEOSS Common service registry in AtlantO

EMSO: A Distributed Infrastructure for Addressing Geohazards and Global Ocean Change

Special issue On Undersea Natural Hazards.-- Best, Mairi ... et. al.-- 3 pages, 2 figuresThe European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water-column Observatory (EMSO; http://www.emso-eu.org) is addressing the next challenge in Earth-ocean science: how to coordinate data acquisition, analysis, archiving, access, and response to geohazards across provincial, national, regional, and international boundaries. Such coordination is needed to optimize the use of current and planned ocean observatory systems to (1) address national and regional public safety concerns about geohazards (e.g., earthquakes, submarine landslides, tsunamis) and (2) permit broadening of their scope toward monitoring environmental change on global ocean scalesEMSO is built on the progress made through over 23 European marine observation projects through many decades. In particular, its foundation is based on the work of hundreds of people in ESONET Concerted Action (FP5) from 2002 to 2004, ESONIM (European Seafoor Observatories Implementation Model) (FP6) from 2004 to 2007, ESONET-NoE (FP6) from 2007 to 2011, and EMSO-Preparatory Phase (FP7) from 2008–2012Peer Reviewe

Uncrewed Surface Vehicles (USV): from survey to shipping

Autonomy and unmanned systems have evolved signifcantly in recent decades, becoming a key routine component for various sectors and domains as an intrinsic sign of their improvement, the ocean not being an exception. This paper shows the transition from the research concept to the commercial product and related services for Uncrewed Surface Vehicles (USV). Note that it has not always been easy in most cases due to limitations on the technology, business, and policy framework sides. An overview of current trends in USV technology looking for a baseline to understand the sector where some experiences of the authors are shown in this work. The analysis presented shows a multidisciplinary approach to the feld. USV’s capabilities and applications today include a wide range of operations and services aimed at meeting the specifc needs of the maritime sector. This important consideration for USV has yet to be fully addressed, but progress is being made to best contribute, among others, to the development and consolidation of the European Research Infrastructure (RI) on Marine Robotics (EUMR) where USV should play a key role.Peer Reviewe

Applying OGC sensor web enablement to ocean observing systems

The complexity of marine installations for ocean observing systems has grown significantly in recent years. In a network consisting of tens, hundreds or thousands of marine instruments, manual configuration and integration becomes very challenging. Simplifying the integration process in existing or newly established observing systems would benefit system operators and is important for the broader application of different sensors. This article presents an approach for the automatic configuration and integration of sensors into an interoperable Sensor Web infrastructure. First, the sensor communication model, based on OGC's SensorML standard, is utilized. It serves as a generic driver mechanism since it enables the declarative and detailed description of a sensor's protocol. Finally, we present a data acquisition architecture based on the OGC PUCK protocol that enables storage and retrieval of the SensorML document from the sensor itself, and automatic integration of sensors into an interoperable Sensor Web infrastructure. Our approach adopts Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) as alternative serialization form of XML or JSON. It solves the bandwidth problem of XML and JSON.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

Investment in work health promotion in small and medium-sized enterprises in Germany

Economic success of companies is related to the rate of absenteeism and the rate of fluctuation, but also to the subjective experience of the employees. During economic difficult situations, enterprises wanted and had to motivate their employees to maintain their productivity and motivation to work. Investments in work health promotion-measures resulted to be a good way to do this. Workplace health promotion turned out to be a suitable way to boost and/or maintain the motivation of employees. Authors of the article give an overview of work health promotion (WHP) in Germany (especially in small and medium enterprises) and analyze implementation strategies, costs, key-success-factors and obstacles before or during the implementation of WHP-measures

AtlantOS Data Management Plan Framework

Version No.: 1 Date: 30. Sep 201

AtlantOS Data Management Plan Framework

Version No.:1.2. -Implementation of AtlantOS Catalogue and GEOSS requirement