Open AccessRegional Data Center (RDC) of FSUE «TINRO-centre»: its role in prediction of resource state for national fisheries and principal directions of activities
Author(s) -
Igor V. Volvenko
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
izvestiâ tinro/izvestiâ tihookeanskogo naučno-issledovatelʹskogo rybohozâjstvennogo centra
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2658-5510
pISSN - 1606-9919
DOI - 10.26428/1606-9919-2014-176-3-15
Subject(s) - principal (computer security) , data collection , resource (disambiguation) , data management , automation , computer science , fisheries research , cruise , data processing , marine conservation , research center , data science , environmental resource management , engineering management , geography , engineering , database , environmental science , fishery , mechanical engineering , medicine , computer network , statistics , mathematics , pathology , fish <actinopterygii> , biology , aerospace engineering , operating system
Regional Data Center (RDC) is 40 years old in 2014. Its main goals are accumulation of research data on Far-Eastern marine biological resources and their environments, as well as supervision for the data collection, validation and processing. Principal activities of RDC are: 1) development and implementation of computerize workplaces for scientific and technical personnel aboard research vessels and ashore; 2) logging of primary cruise materials on paper and their digitizing; 3) development and management of large databases (DB) for the information gathered in research cruises and fishery statistics; 4) creation of knowledge bases and geographic information systems (GIS) containing the processed results on long-term monitoring of marine ecosystems; 5 ) performing any user queries to the DB and GIS for quick information support of current scientific, practical and administrative activities in all departments of TINRO; 6) development of new methodological approaches to data processing and automation of related processes by creation of original software; 7 ) inter-institutional data exchange and creation of joint DB; 8) TINRO staff consulting on methodological issues of statistical and cartographic data processing; 9) development of regulations and normative documents regulating relationships in collection, storage and access to the information archived in RDC; 10) scientific researches, independent or joint with other laboratories. These ten trends are focused onto studies of marine ecosystems and their climatic and oceanographic environments, short-term and long-term forecasting of bioresources, rational management of fisheries and aquaculture, planning of research expeditions.