Specification of required improvements and additions of shipboard data management system. Version 1. EuroFleets WP3, Deliverable 3.2.

Abstract

The Eurofleets+ fleet comprises twenty-seven research vessels operated by European and international research organizations that will provide ship time as part of the transnational access (TA) calls for deploying Eurofleets TA cruises. In the first two years of the project, the research vessels will be equipped with the ship board system EARS V2 (Eurofleets Automatic Reporting System), developed in predecessor Eurofleets projects. It consists of four major components: - EARS, developed by RBINS - Data Acquisition System, developed by IFREMER - En-route Ship Summary Report (SSR) system, developed by CSIC with contributions from IFREMER - Web Services, developed by CSIC with contributions from IFREMER These components will be upgraded by each of their original developers, also in the first two years of the project. This should result in an upgraded Eurofleets+ shipboard software suite, EARS V3, that will replace the initial EARS V2 installations. The ambition is to install and configure the upgraded system in the third and fourth years of the project on all Eurofleets+ vessels in various configurations, depending on the existing situations at these research vessels. This is required as each research vessel has a different local configuration, uses other instruments, and thus requires adaptations and flexibility from the Eurofleets+ ship board system. The EARS V2 system and its successor Eurofleets+ shipboard software suite EARS V3 will be instrumental for gathering the full set of cruise data that is acquired during the operations of an Eurofleets+ TA cruise and transferring en-route data to the EVIOR portal. This comprises metadata and data from: - En-route (underway) data acquisition by fixed sensors on the platform: location, meteorology, thermosalinometry, FerryBox, - Registered events of scientific measurements made and samples taken