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NMDIS
Introduction
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Lin
Shaohua, Director of NMDIS
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The National Marine Data and
Information Service (NMDIS) is an public-good
institution directly under the State Oceanic
Administration (SOA) of China, which is responsible for
the centralized management of national marine
information resources, the provision of technical
support and information service for national marine
economic development, sea area management and marine
environmental protection, and the operational guidance
and coordination for national marine information work.
The NMDIS (housing and operating the
National Oceanographic Data Center of China, the China
Argo Data Center, the National Marine Archives Center
and the International Ocean Institute China Operational
Center) hosts the World Data Center-D for Oceanography,
Tianjin, China. The NMDIS acts also as the national
representative and coordinator for the IOC Committee on
International Oceanographic Data and Information
Exchange (IODE), the national partner participating in
the Aquatic Science and Fisheries Information System (ASFIS)
of the United Nations, the ASFA National Input Center in
China and the National Documents Depository Center of
UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
(IOC).
The NMDIS is mainly responsible for
the collection, processing, storage and service of
various kinds of marine basic data and information both
at home and abroad; the establishment and operational
running of national marine basic databases; the
establishment of the operational system for the quality
management of national marine information; the
formulation of relevant technical criteria and
specifications; the quality certification of marine
information and the qualificatory certification for
design and development of marine information system and
information service; the national tidal and tidal
current analysis, prediction and sea level change study
and prediction, and preparation of the Tidal and Tidal
Current Table and the Sea Level Bulletin of China; the
China Marine Statistics Yearbook and the China Marine
Economic Statistics Bulletin; the work of researching
the basic marine laws and regulations and drawing up the
draft plana; marine legislation studies and the
establishment, maintenance and operational running of
the national comprehensive marine information work and
network system; the establishment and operational
running of information systems for national management
of sea areas, marine environmental protection and so
forth; studying on and regulating the application
assessment and price system of the assets management of
sea area resources, following up and studying on the
technologies of marine management, environmental
protection and marine information. It fulfills, on
behalf of China, the national obligations to
international organizations in the marine information
cooperation and exchange.
Now, the NMDIS has formed a
highly-calibrated, rationally-structured marine
information work team and possessed a whole array of
technical equipment and infrastructure in considerable
quantities and with high performance.
Marine
Data Center
Marine
Data Center is responsible for the collection, processing and
management of marine data centralized management of national marine
basic data, and establishment, maintenance and management of the
marine basic databases and building and developing the marine
environmental data and information system. The Center conducts
international marine data exchange and carries out the researches on
the processing technologies of marine data, working out marine data
standards and specifications. making marine data products. The Center
operates the WDC for Oceanography, Tianjin, China, and the China Argo
Data Center. It provides the analysis and assessment service with
respect to all kinds of marine data products and the marine
environmental conditions.
The main work includes:
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Collection and standardization processing of marine data.
The Division has established archives of coastal station
data, meteorological data, temperature and salinity data, sea
wave data, sea ice data, buoy data, Nansen station data, tidal
current data, marine chemical data, marine pollution data,
marine biological data, marine geological data and geophysical
data. The rescue of the historical data as ship
report, BT data and coastal survey is being carried on.
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Establishment of various marine data bases and information
systems. They have completed the Oceanic Mineral Resources
Database, Database on Tropical Western Pacific and Kuroshio
Area, Hydrographic part of the Continental Shelf Database and
Comprehensive Nansha Database. The Marine Environment and
Disaster Information System in process is a component of the
National Marine Economic Information System.
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Marine data product making. The Division has finished the
oceanographic atlases for the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea and
the East China Sea, the Oceanographic Atlas of Japan-China
Kuroshio Research, the Ocean-Air Interaction Research
Atlas on the Tropical Western Pacific, the Chart of Surface Current in
the Tropical Western Pacific, the Chart of Current System on
the Continental Shelf of China, etc.. At present, the CD-ROM
data and electronic atlas making are in process.
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Following the high and new technologies of data processing
in the world, carrying out the research on the processing
technologies of CTD, ADCP and buoy data, etc. Research on the
seabeam data processing techniques is being carried on.
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Collection and exchange of international marine data. The
Division is the operational center of CNODC and WDC-D,
Oceanography and the major operational sector of the IODE/IOC
China Center.
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Provision of the services for the users at home and abroad
with environmental analysis and assessment such as sea waves,
temperature and salinity, sea current, meteorology, pollution
and so on.
Marine
Data Management, Processing and Service
Network Center
The
Network Center undertakes the establishment and management of the
national marine information communication networks; organizes and
implements the transmission and sharing of national marine
information; maintains and manages the China Oceanic Information
Network; and provides information and technical support for the
website operations of SOA and NMDIS.
Marine information
network construction and service
Block
Diagram for the National Marine Information Operational
System.
COINet provides the following services:
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Email service;
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World Wide Web-WWW service,
http://www.nmdis.gov.cn;
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Anonymous transmission service of FTP files,
ftp:// ftp.nmdis.gov.cn;
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Service of Telnet remote login and Information resources sharing;
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News service: receiving, storing and reading marine news;
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PPP network inward dialing service;
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HomePage design and production service;
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Web station and node design and setup service.
Marine
Environmental Assessment and Prediction Department
Marine
Environmental Assessment and Prediction Departments is
mainly responsible for marine environmental assessment
and prediction. The Center develops and maintains the
comprehensive and special information system for marine
environmental protection and management and produces
marine environmental information products. It carries
out the data processing and the information extractive
technique from satellite remote sensing data, performs
research on military oceanography and ecological
environment and numerical simulation, the tide and tidal
current analysis and prediction for marine engineering,
national defense and scientific research, etc. It is
also responsible for undertaking the domestic and global
marine tide and tidal current prediction, compiling the
tidal tables; carrying out research on the sea level
change and the marine disasters prevention and
mitigation, preparing the China Sea Level Bulletin, and
taking part in the compilation and issuance of the
information on China's marine environmental status.
Marine
Environmental Assessment and Prediction Service
Department
of Marine Strategies, Rights and Interests
Department
of Marine Strategies, Rights and Interests undertakes
the study on marine strategies and policies, major
measures and action plans in safeguarding China's marine
rights and interests and provides technical support for
China's marine boundary delimitation with the
surrounding countries; studies on the basic marine laws
and regulations concerning the sea areas under China's
jurisdiction, marine legislation and methods of maritime
delimitation; and establishes the information management
system for the delimitation of China's continental shelf
and the adjacent sea areas and the marine laws and
regulations information management system.
The Marine S&T. Information Research Division is also known
as the Marine Management and Development Research Division, the
major work of which includes:
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Studies on marine development strategies, marine planning and marine policies;
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Researches on delimitation of sea areas, marine legislation and international marine affairs;
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Researches on marine resources
development, marine service and marine S&T. information;
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Establishment of Chinese sea delimitation information database and expert system , information system of marine
laws and regulations, marine information database, etc.;
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Translation and Revision of the Chinese and foreign
materials on marine information; foreign language education,
participation in activities concerned the international affairs;
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Edition and publication of marine information research report and periodicals, etc..
Marine
Strategy and Policy study
Department
of Sea Area Use and Economic Resource
Department
of Sea Area Use and Economic Resources is responsible
for managing the information on the national marine
economy , marine resource , national sea area boundary
settlement and sea area use, establishing and
maintaining the information systems for sea area use,
sea area boundary settlement, functional zoning and
coastal zone management and the expert evaluation;
establishing the National Marine Statistics Network,
undertaking the marine statistical analysis on the
marine industries; editing and publishing the China
Marine Statistics Yearbook and China Marine Economic
Statistics Bulletin; establishing the marine
law-enforcement and supervision information system and
providing various kinds of consultation services for the
macro decision-making, management and research of marine
economics.
Marine
Economic Information Management and Service
Marine
Library
The
Library of NMDIS is one of the largest comprehensive
libraries in marine science in China, the national
centre for marine literature collection and service and
the leading agency of Marine Literature Information
Coordination Committee and act as a national level focal
point for marine scientific and technological inquiry
service: performs the functions and tasks of the China
National Centre for the Aquatic Science and Fisheries
Information System (ASFIS) and the China National
Documents Depository Centre of the UNESCO's
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC). The
Library's holds over 100,000 volumes of books, more than
2,000 kinds of periodicals in Chinese and foreign
languages and over 9 million records in the literature
databases. The Library has established exchange
relationships with all the international ocean-related
organizations in the world and over 170 institutions in
32 countries and region. Now, the on-line retrieval
system for the domestic and foreign literature database
and its automatic operation management system are being
established and perfected in the Library. The library
also compiles and publishes several journals, such as 《
China Ocean Yearbook》,
《Marine Science Bulletin》,
《Marine Information》,
《Oceanic Abstracts》,
etc..
Marine
Literature Management and Service
Marine
Publications
National
Marine Archives
National
Marine Archives performs the duties of collection,
processing, archiving, management and providing service
of the national marine archives, and the work of
drafting marine archives standards, specifications and
regulations; collection, production and editing of
marine audio-video data as will as special-subject video
production and service. The current holdings include an
enormous amount of marine scientific and technological
archives from the surveys on China's coastal zone, and
the comprehensive surveys on China's island resources ,
and the comprehensive surveys on the China's near waters
, etc. Currently, the national marine scientific and
technological archives management database and its
automatic service system are being established and
perfected.
Marine
Archives Management and Service
Department
of Marine Remote-Sensing and Basic Geographic
Information
Department
of Marine Remote-sensing and Basic geographic
Information holds the Class A Certificate of Surveying
and Mapping issued by the State Administration of
Surveying and Mapping. It is responsible for the
collection, processing, management and providing service
of the marine basic geographic data, and for
establishing and maintaining the marine basic geographic
information system; establishing the marine topographic
database for Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea and
the South China Sea, with scales of 1:500000, 1:250000,
1:100000, and 1:50000; designing, compiling, producing
and publishing the marine basic maps, marine charts and
the basic marine atlases; responsible for the
implementing the international program of the
International Bathymetric Chart of the Western Pacific (IBCWP)
which sponsored and organized by IOC; carrying out the
applied research on marine remote-sensing technologies,
collecting and processing remote-sensing data on the
coastal zone, establishing database for marine
remote-sensing data, developing information products and
developing special marine GIS for marine management.
Marine
Remote-Sensing and Basic Geographic Information
Management and Service
China Operational
Centre of the International Ocean Institute
The
China Operational Centre of the International Ocean
Institute (IOI-China) is founded in NMDIS, mainly
undertaking the task of training qualified personnel in
the field of marine management and ocean technology,
including drawing up the training and research programs,
and the medium- and long-term development plans for IOI-China,
undertaking the cooperation and the exchange between the
headquarters of IOI and the national operational centres,
organizing and implementing the training programs of IOI.
Since its founding in 1994, it has run many successful
training courses in ocean technology, international
marine laws and regulations, and marine management.
China
Operational Centre of the International Ocean Institute
International
Exchange and Cooperation
For
many years, NMDIS has actively participated in marine
data and information management activities of
international organizations, such as IODE, JCOMM, GOOS,
etc. NMDIS acts as China’s national focal point
for international oceanographic data exchanges. NMDIS
also conducts direct bilateral data exchange of marine
data and information with dozens of ocean-related
international organizations, and over 170 institutions
in 32 countries and regions. The NMDIS operates the
World Data Center for Oceanography, Tianjin, China. Many
experts from NMDIS have been sent to participate various
kinds of international conferences and workshops and
many has been held in NMDIS as a host. Through
international cooperation, nearly one hundred young and
middle-aged scientific personnel was trained technically
abroad. For some data bases, the data obtained by
international exchange is equal or greater than that
collected by Chinese sources.
nternational
Exchange and Cooperation
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