IMOS
Integrated Marine Observing System
20 Castray Esplanade, Battery Point TAS 7004, Australia
Established: 2006
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| Geographical scope: | National |
| Member countries: | Australia |
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Organisation’s vision:
By 2025, Australia will have a continuously growing time series of essential ocean variables for marine and coastal environments. This will enable cutting edge research on contemporary problems, and provide a scientific basis for informed decision making about our vast and valuable marine estate.
Organisation’s mission:
Its mission is:
• to undertake systematic, sustained, scientifically robust observation of Australia’s vast and valuable ocean estate; and
• turn these observations into data, time series, products and analyses that can be used and reused for broad societal benefit.
Organisation’s objectives (if different from the Mission):
Keywords
- national collaborative program
- ocean observing infrastructure
- open data
- sustained ocean observations
Activities
- Conducting research and/or observations
- Data management, interoperability, sharing, access, open data policies
- Provision of (ocean) information services
IMOS
has observer/participant/member status with
International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange of IOC-UNESCO
has observer/participant/member status with
International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange of IOC-UNESCO
IMOS
has observer/participant/member status with
Global Alliance of Continuous Plankton Recorder Surveys
has observer/participant/member status with
Global Alliance of Continuous Plankton Recorder Surveys
