Objective
- The overall objective of this project is to undertake research in relation to the establishment of a Mediterranean environmental monitoring network. The project is based on a legacy data model of a distributed database, client/server system acting as a platform for the flow of data in delay mode/near real-time between coastal monitoring pylons/buoys, localised control stations and a central control centre. This platform is supported by the Microsoft SQL Database Server that operates under Microsoft Windows NT and incorporates the management, processing and archival of data as well as the access by end-users through a user-friendly interface. These elements will set the ground for the future setting up a real-time environmental monitoring network for the Mediterranean with a main control station in Malta and established as an extension of the RAVEL network in France;
- In particular, it is intended to study the features that such a network must possess in order to meet the requirements of the Mediterranean environment with regard to sophisticated data storage and data management techniques which will enable detailed archival patterns, easy and rapid access, and user-defined analysis protocols.
Expected Outcome
- Monitoring platforms will be designed and tested under real life conditions with regard to the possibility to integrate them into an automated environmental monitoring system for the Mediterranean Sea;
- Data handling procedures and protocols will be developed and tested as well as the necessary technologies that allow the efficient and fast processing and exchange of the data generated;
- The project will therefore provide a sound basis for the development of a larger Mediterranean network for the monitoring of the state of the environment.
- Pre-study phase
Identification of test sites and specialised scientific fields for the experimental application of the monitoring network to be designed together with the identification of potential users and their needs. Planning of data management structures and identification of major technological problems to be tackled.
- Construction of the basic unit
- Development and validation of the concept for a monitoring platform equipped with different sensors that automatically transmits physico-chemical parameters to a local control station. The platform will be designed and tested for long deployments, ease of servicing and for continuous acquisition of data at all weather conditions.
- Experiments will be conducted in order to test and improve the data management system and the data transmission to the control station in Brest.
- Operation of the basic unit
- This will allow to verify the feasibility of the chosen approach and to test all system components under real life conditions. It will also generate enough data to carry out experiments with regard to the user interface to be developed in this project.
- Development of algorithms for the automated detection of thresholds/jumps in data sets.
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44037 Nantes
France
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