IMOS is leading a project to deliver a fit-for purpose Data Management System (DMS) for the Reef 2050 Integrated Monitoring and Reporting Program (RIMReP).
The DMS has now reached over 100 fully processed datasets and is continuing to grow. With access to more than 2,500 different variables, users can explore various datasets related to the human environment, coral reef monitoring, water quality, marine weather, satellite products, geographical and administrative boundaries, and more.
To learn how to interact with the DMS data and metadata services, please visit the public repositories rimrep-examples and rimrep-training. You can download more than 25 working notebooks in Python or R and customize them to fit your research/management data needs. Explore the DMS catalogue using your academic email as your access credential. If your organisation is not a partner of the Australian Access Federation and wants to use the DMS, write to us, and we will provide you with a login.
We recently made the project documentation site available to the public. It provides a technical description of the DMS and guides you through searching for a dataset, setting up your computer with necessary tools, and connecting to and using DMS data and metadata services. If you encounter any issues while using the DMS, you can raise them in the documentation repository. Your feedback can help us improve the system.
Featured data collection. During times of ocean warming, the DMS provides efficient access to several datasets related to sea water temperature, from NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch suite of products (like Degree-heating Week, our most popular dataset) to Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) marine weather stations (updated every 10 minutes) and modelled oceanographic and biogeochemical data from eReefs products. NOAA and SSTAARS Sea Surface Temperature climatologies are also available. No more “fishing for data”: now you can have access to all this massive data in one single place.
The RIMReP Data Management System is funded by the partnership between the Australian Government’s Reef Trust and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority with support from the Integrated Marine Observing System.