U.S. IOOS QARTOD Project Plan.

Abstract

As part of the US IOOS DMAC core services, the US IOOS Program Office will initiate a sustainable, community-based project to establish authoritative procedures for quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) of real-time ocean sensor data collected for US IOOS. This project will be based on the QARTOD (Quality Assurance of Real Time Ocean Data) effort, existing community-based QA/QC efforts, and existing QA/QC standards developed by Federal Agencies and the US IOOS Regional Coastal Ocean Observing Systems (RCOOS). This project will retain the name of QARTOD. All of the known QA/QC programs in existence today provide parts to the solution, but none consolidates the various parts. This document outlines how QARTOD will be administered and funded. The result of this effort is to develop standards that can become formal IOOS data standards for data from the Regional Associations.