Reading for Intro to Marine Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with Saga

Marine Data Literacy

Proudly published in the United States of America for environmental scientists around the world. Providing instruction for managing, converting, analyzing and displaying oceanographic station data, marine meteorological data, GIS-compatible marine and coastal data and model simulations, and mapped remote sensing imagery

Reading for Intro to Marine Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with Saga

The half of knowledge, is knowing where to find knowledge

To take this course, you need to read several articles in the OceanTeacher Academy Digital Library; they are not in MDL. You don't need to memorize anything, and you should focus only on the articles linked below. The top-level structure of the Library is indicated just to help you understand the overall content. Feel free to explore the entire resource (i.e. the 250 other articles) on your own time. Ask your instructor if you have questions, or use the Digital Library's search function to find items of interest. Quoted items are taken verbatim (or nearly so) from the Library.

Marine Data Management - Main entry point for the library; you can navigate down to the articles, or use the direct links below.

General Marine Reference Shelf - "Resources describing or defining basic concepts and entities mentioned throughout OceanTeacher, including additional educational opportunities in selected topics."
Manipulation - Analysis - Display - "Methods and tools to make usable analysis products from various available levels of "raw" data"
Marine Data Infrastructure - "The information technology, specifications and standards needed to understand and displayreported parameter values and their descriptions."
- Numerical Data
  - Digital Number Types
  - General File-Naming Convention for Earth Science Datasets
  - Gridded Data
  - Scalars and Vectors
- Geospatial Data Concepts
  - Bathymetry & Topography (=Relief)
  - Coastlines and Landmasks
  - Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  - Geolocation by Latitude & Longitude
  - Map Projections for Cartography
  - Map Scale
- Marine Data Format Types
  - Raster & Grid Formats
    - Vertex-Centered and Cell-Centered Grids
  - Self-Describing Formats
  - Vector Formats
Marine Data Quality Management - "The procedures, exercises and systems employed to insure the reliability and accuracy of marine data. QM is usually considered to consist of the two phases Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC)."
Marine Data Transmission and Product Distribution Systems - "Technology (and systems) developed for global electronic publication of data, analysis products and model simulations of the marine domain"
Marine Data and Products - "The activities and entities who make marine (and related) measurements to publish them in the form of datasets and/or derived products, and the publications, archives and online facilities where they can be found"
- Geospatial Data Gateway