NOAA Observing System Architecture explained

The NOAA Observing System Architecture (NOSA) is a collection of over 100 of the environmental datasets of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) . It was established to develop an observational architecture that helps NOAA to design observing systems that support NOAA's mission, avoid duplication of existing systems and operate efficiently in a cost-effective manner.

NOSA includes:

• NOAA's observing systems (and others) required to support NOAA's mission,
• The relationship among observing systems; including how they contribute to support NOAA's mission and associated observing requirements, and
• The guidelines governing the design of a target architecture and the evolution toward this target architecture

See also

• ACARS
• AERONET
• FluxNet
• Coastal-Marine Automated Network

Sources

• News: Noaa Web Site Provides Huge Inventory Of Earth Observing Systems. 14 June 2016. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
• Fox. C. G. Habermann. T.. Stroker. K. J.. A Spatial Portal for Accessing NOAA's Observing Systems. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2004. SF34A–02. 2004AGUFMSF34A..02F. adsabs.harvard.edu. 2004.
• Web site: NOAA Observing Systems Architecture (NOSA). idn.ceos.org. 15 June 2016.
• Web site: NOAA Maps the Future of Sensors that Gather Data from the 'Bottom of the Ocean to the Sun'. www.spaceref.com. 15 June 2016.

External links

• NOSA Homepage