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Simons Collaborative Marine Atlas Project (Simons CMAP ): An open‐source portal to share, visualize, and analyze ocean data
Author(s) -
Ashkezari Mohammad D.,
Hagen Norland R.,
Denholtz Michael,
Neang Andrew,
Burns Tansy C.,
Morales Rhonda L.,
Lee Charlotte P.,
Hill Christopher N.,
Armbrust E. Virginia
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
limnology and oceanography: methods
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.898
H-Index - 72
ISSN - 1541-5856
DOI - 10.1002/lom3.10439
Subject(s) - computer science , atlas (anatomy) , data integration , data set , harmonization , data science , data mining , information retrieval , systems engineering , engineering , biology , artificial intelligence , paleontology , physics , acoustics
Simons Collaborative Marine Atlas Project (Simons CMAP) is an open‐source data portal that interconnects large, complex, and diverse public data sets currently dispersed in different formats across different Oceanography discipline‐specific databases. Simons CMAP is designed to streamline the retrieval of custom subsets of data, the generation of data visualizations, and the analyses of diverse data, thus expanding the power of these potentially underutilized data sets for cross‐disciplinary studies of ocean processes. We describe a unified architecture that allows numerical model outputs, satellite products, and field observations to be readily shared, mined, and integrated regardless of data set size or resolution. A current focus of Simons CMAP is integration of physical, chemical, and biological data sets essential for characterizing the biogeography of key marine microbes across ocean basins and seasonal cycles. Using a practical example, we demonstrate how our unifying data harmonization plans significantly simplifies and allows for systematic data integration across all Simons CMAP data sets.