AMIS Overview
Alaska Marine Information System (AMIS) is a growing
warehouse for Alaskan marine and coastal project information
and data.
Mission
WAREHOUSE: Project, metadata and data
DISCOVER: Explore project information and data
PLAN: Efficient allocation of future funds; project plans
Capabilites
SEARCH: Ability to make simple and complex queries
for projects and data
VISUALIZE:
Explore data warehouse holdings by space and time
Graphical previews of datasets
ACCESS: Order and download information in a variety of
industry formats
MANAGE: Add, modify, control information in the
project warehouse
Features
MULTIDISCIPLINARY: Biological, Images, Model, Physical,
Remote Sensing
SECURE: Control access for restricted warehouse
information(*)
THEME: Customizable views of project and warehouse
information(*)
(*)In development.
SEARCH
Search for existing information
Planning
Project and data managers will be able to look into the future.
For example, take the year 2009 and see what projects have
been funded and where sampling is planned in the Bering Sea.
Study Areas for 2009
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Sampling for 2009
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VISUAL
ACCESS
MANAGE
SECURE
myAOOS provides a simple security model for AMIS.
Unrestricted data = 
Restricted data = 
- Registered users may download selected datasets.
myAOOS allows researchers and project managers to embargo
information.
- Data managers control data access.
- Users request access from the data manager.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Biological
Images
Physical
Modeling
Remote Sensing
THEMES
AMIS is the project database for the AOOS data warehouse.
AMIS displays information using specific terminology. Stakeholders
that would like to tap into this AMIS database will be able to
translate terminology to meet their local stakeholder needs.
AMIS
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Alternate View
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See poster on mapping project metadata between stakeholders.
WEBSITE
http://ak.aoos.org/amis/
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