NAIONAL OCEAN INFORMATION SYSTEM(NOIS)

The National Ocean Information System (NOIS) seeks to ensure productive and purposeful use of the information generated by the R&D institutions through a network of data centres. Having to share and exchange data and information, NOIS has identified expert R & D institutions specialising in ocean science and technology and established National Marine Data Centres to accomplish the objectives of collection, collation, validation, storage and dissemination of data and information. The names of the data centres and the parameters assigned to them, are given in the table 1.

Mode of operation of Marine Data Centres:

In order to enable the centres to exchange the data among themselves and also with other centres a satellite based network system with the help of National Informatics Centre has been established. This involves installation of C-200' Micro Earth Stations (MES) at all the marine data centres. The NICNET facility at NIC, New Delhi, acts as Master Earth Station for the NOIS data exchange programme.

Table-I

Name of the Institute Parameters

Office of DDG,India Meteorological Ocean Surface Meteorology Department, Pune Geological Survey of India, Marine Geology Calcutta KD Malvia Institute of Petroleum Magnetic, Seismic data Exploration, Dehradun Survey of India, Dehradun Tide level Naval Hydrographic Office, Dehradun Bathymetry Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Marine Algal resources Research Institute, Bhavnagar Regional Centre, National Institute Marine Pollution of Oceanography, Bombay Fishery Survey of India, Bombay Offshore Fisheries National Institute of Oceanography, Physical, Chemical and Goa Biological Oceanography Central Marine Fisheries Research Coastal Fisheries Institute, Kochi Institute for Ocean Management Coastal Geomorphology Madras National Remote Sensing Agency, Ocean related remote sensing Hyderabad parameters Central Drug Research Institute, Bio-active substances in Lucknow the sea

Table-I: Name of the institutes with assigned parameters

Table-II

Data User/Usage

1. Marine Geology Development of strategy for exploration and exploitation of minerals; R&D organisations for development of suitable technology for mining and universities for knowledge building. 2. Magnetic and Seismic Oil Exploration and production agencies; R&D institutions studying the geophysical aspects of the oceans etc., 3. Ocean Surface Meteorology As an input in weather prediction over land validation of climate models, navigation, studies on ocean surface currents, etc. 4. Marine Pollution Controlling of pollution by concerned authorities, development of mathematical models for studying dynamics of pollution; to keep constant watch on health of our seas 5. Physical oceanography Naval applications; designing of offshore structures; navigational channels in ports, breakwaters; dynamics of pollution; studies on sedimentation processes, coastal erosion and accretion; etc. 6. Coastal geomorphology Plans for coastal land use development; brackishwater aquaculture; coastal erosion and accretion; protection of ecologically sensitive areas; exploitation of mineral resources; etc. 7. Coastal and offshore Development of strategy for rational fisheries exploitation of exploited resources and development of for uttilisation of unexploited resources; protection of endangered species, etc. 8. Tide level Monitoring of sea level variations; development of mathematical models of study inundation; impact studies on sea level rise 9. Remote sensing SST data for climate studies, preparation of Potential Fishing Zone maps, wave data for wave application studies like designing of onshore and offshore structures, chlorophyll data for assessing the productivity of the sea, detection of oil spils, etc. Table-II: User agencies/activities getting benefitted by the marine data centre databases.