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ODAS: Ocean Data Acquisition System - Underway data from the RV Belgica
Contact: Operationele Directie Natuurlijk Milieu (IRScNB/KBIN-OD Natuur), more

Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
The system collects, processes and stores oceanographic, meteorological, navigation (position, heading and speed of the ship) and other data from various measuring equipment installed on board the RV Belgica. These measurements are transmitted every 10 minutes to the OD Nature Measurement Services Ostend (MSO) via a satellite link, where they are added to the ODAS database

Scope
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, ANE, United Kingdom

Geographical coverage
ANE, United Kingdom [Marine Regions]

Contributors
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen; Operationele Directie Natuurlijk Milieu (OD Natuur), moredata manager

Related datasets
Other relation:
Monitoring hydrography, water quality & contaminants for the Belgian continental shelf area and Western Scheldt, more

Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2012-12-14
Information last updated: 2015-10-12
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