PMEL operates observing systems that return oceanographic and meteorological data. As stewards of this tax-payer funded asset, we are responsible for the curation and preservation of these data to ensure data integrity and availability to future generations of scientists. The PMEL Science Data Integration Group (SDIG) focuses on this task and provides services towards this data management objective.
SDIG is devoted to data management, data integration, and related software development. SDIG develops solutions that support data management at PMEL and across NOAA. The group has developed core technologies used by various groups within NOAA, as well as entities outside NOAA, to manage, access, and visualize scientific data assets.
SDIG manages the storage and data access services for the majority of PMEL data, which can be found on the PMEL data access page. As a NOAA leader in developing infrastructure and optimal practices for accepting data from uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs), SDIG maintains services that accept data from many marine USV data vendors. These services accept and verify data before making it available to operational and research users.
The Surface CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) data assembly center and data management software was developed and is maintained at PMEL by SDIG. This software is extended to support the Ocean Acidification Program’s Scientific Data Information System (SDIS) software at PMEL.
SDIG maintains a Plotly Dash enterprise infrastructure that provides developers with a platform for rapid dashboard development.