SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and
Prediction (SCOOP) Program
“Enabling Integration of Coastal Observing Initiatives”
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Vision
Providing community-wide information services and technologies that advance the sciences of prediction and hazard planning for our nation's coastal populations. |
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Objective
The SURA
Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction (SCOOP) program
is integrating diverse efforts and empowering a virtual community of scientists with the tools, resources, and ideas that lead to discovery. The purpose is to promote the effective and rapid fusion of observed oceanographic data with numerical models and to facilitate the rapid dissemination of information to operational, scientific, and public or private users. |
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Goals
Creating an open access, distributed laboratory for oceanographic scientific research and coastal operations by:
• Supporting the development and implementation of data standards that comprise the technical language of interoperability,
• Demonstrating the potential for integration and added value that occurs when disparate and diverse communities employ a common, standardized framework for information exchange; and
• Deploying the technical infrastructure to create an environmental prediction system that can be used as a research tool and handed off to the responsible entity that will use it to support the decision-making activities that benefit society. |
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