BARENTSWATCH - A NATIONAL SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PORTAL FOR NORWEGIAN WATERS

摘要

There is a vast amount of information gathered on the oceans and coastal areas both in real time and in historical archives. This information is however scattered between several governmental and institutional bodies. The individual pieces of information are typically tailored for a large number of different, non-cooperating legacy systems.This makes it hard to gather a complete multi-dimensional recognized picture over the area, whether the application domain is safety at sea, resource management, risk management or environmental monitoring.Kongsberg Spacetec AS started a process preparing the ground for a harmonized, multi-discipline information portal for the area in 2003. In June 2011 we were awarded the contract for realizing Barents Watch; a unified information and decision support system covering the Norwegian coast and the Norwegian waters. This contract only covers what is later referred to as Barents Watch Open, while the closed part of Barents Watch is pending a governmental decision.This presentation will give an overview of the project goals and present the overall design of the distributed system. The benefits and limitations implied by our strict goal for using open OGC and ISO standards for both data and information exchange will be highlighted. It will be demonstrated how the system design itself can encourage collaboration and information sharing, and how new information can be provided by both the public and by agencies.Furthermore we will demonstrate how the open system can be extended for secure, governmental use and at the same time function as a larger system of systems.