Welcome to OOSTethys, where members of the ocean-science community are using Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards to implement an earth-observing "system of systems." OOSTethys partners develop, test and implement easy-to-use, open-source, OGC-compliant software, and have created a working prototype of networked, semantically interoperable, real-time data systems. Our goal is to develop capabilities that will advance and support initiatives such as the IOOS, OOI, GEOSS and others.

• Data Providers: Use OOSTethys software downloads & cookbooks to implement OGC web services.
• Data Users: Explore HOWTOs for data clients & web-based visualizations from the OOSTethys reference implementation.
  
• Developers: Help create new software components and get involved in the OGC Interoperability Experiment.

Conference/Workshop announcement: "Ocean Innovation 2008 - 'World Summit – Ocean Observing Systems'"
Ocean Innovation 2008 is scheduled for October 19 - 22 in St. John's, Newfoundland. A one-day conference workshop will be held on the 22nd - "From Sensors to Applications: Advancing the Interoperability of Ocean Sensors". It will bring together a global community of interest in ocean observing systems to discuss and debate lessons learned and paths forward. This workshop is being co-sponsored by the OGC and Alliance for Coastal Technologies (ACT). FOR MORE INFORMATION

In December 2006, the OGC approved the Ocean Science Interoperability Experiment (OCEANS IE), which is building a close relationship between OOSTethys activities and the OGC vision for Sensor Web Enablement. The OOSTethys activities use OGC specifications such as SensorML, Sensor Observation Services (SOS), and related OGC specifications such as the Web Feature Service (WFS). Learn how you can participate.

Technical info and Capabilities | OOSTethys FAQ | Action Items

OOSTethys Data Aggregation Examples (click thumbnails to open mapping tools on OpenIOOS.org)	OOSTethys Partners
Google Maps                                                                 MapServer How are these maps built? Click for details Map of OOSTethys Participants	OOSTethys Founding Partners: SURA (OpenIOOS Interoperability Test Bed) MMI (Marine Metadata Interoperability Project) Click here for more information on this partnership Developers: GoMOOS MBARI Texas A&M UAH VIMS NANOOS Data Providers: AOOS COOA UNH GoMOOS MBARI MVCO NANOOS TABS TAMU VIMS