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Digital Ocean - Great Lakes Geospatial Technologies
National Sea Grant Goal: Develop tools to assimilate data from distributed observatories, or individual networked ocean sensors, and then connect this assimilated data with the various existing computer models of ocean processes.
Imagine placing the global ocean on a microchip. That’s essentially what Sea Grant’s Digital Ocean Theme aims to do by developing methods to create extensive digital representations, or models, of ocean resources and phenomena, such as El Niño events. Such models will be able to translate chemical, biological and physical data into tools that will help us learn how best to use and tend to our marine resources.
As part of this national effort, Wisconsin Sea Grant’s priority in this theme is to begin putting the Great Lakes on a microchip by developing research and monitoring tools, computer models and methods for continuously tracking and assessing in real time the nature and extent of chemical, biological, geological and physical changes in marine and Great Lakes waters. The ultimate goal is the seamless integration of data from observation systems in the Great Lakes and geographic information systems (GIS) data from the watershed with satellite remote sensing data.
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