UK National Databank of glider and ALR data (2015 - )

This dataset of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, such as Gliders and AutoSub Long-Range (ALR), managed by the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) contains UK-funded worldwide campaigns of gliders since 2015 and ALRs since 2019. Glider and ALR deployments collect pressure, temperature, conductivity, and salinity through CTD sensors. Each platform’s logger records: platform attitude, water velocities, depth (pressure), and engineering variables. Additional sensors collecting: optical backscatter, chlorophyll fluorescence, turbulence microstructure, irradiance, and photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) data are mounted on each platform according to individual project objectives. Measurements are decimated for transmission and sent to BODC via satellite in near-real-time, where data are curated, then delivered in the OG1.0 Community (NetCDF) and raw binary format on ERDDAP for open access projects, in addition to the provision of metadata in JSON format. Near-real-time and recovery (i.e. the data from the SD card upon platform recovery) versions of the data are available. The metadata contain information about project, campaign objectives, funding, event metadata, platform and sensors, and measured parameters and units.

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Alternate title

British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048GliderALR_2015
Date (Publication)
2026-03-11
Date (Creation)
2026-03-11
Date (Revision)
2026-03-11
Citation identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED7461
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Oceanographic Data Centre

Unknown

enquiries@bodc.ac.uk

Owner

British Oceanographic Data Centre

Unknown

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Originator

British Oceanographic Data Centre

enquiries@bodc.ac.uk

Custodian

British Oceanographic Data Centre

enquiries@bodc.ac.uk

Distributor
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

MEDIN metadata record availability

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary

SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations apply
Other constraints

Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Language
English
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Oceans
  • Elevation
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Geographic identifier
World

SeaVoX water bodies 2025-08-07 revision

Begin date
2015-06-02
End date
2026-03-11 After
Unique resource identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Codespace

OGP
Distribution format
Name Version
Binary
Network Common Data Form
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://platforms.bodc.ac.uk/deployment-catalogue/

UK National Databank of glider and ALR data (2015 - )
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Title

COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

BODC protocols are based on the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model enabling BODC to iterate towards compliance with the on-going evolution and development of community requirements including FAIR (Findable,Accessible,Interoperable,Reusable), TRUST (Transparency, Responsibility, User community, Sustainability, Technology) and CARE (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics). Data managers quality assure submissions and assemble the metadata necessary for curation. Submissions (as received) are placed in a long-term accession and stored in triplicate across multiple sites. Appropriate data are transferred into a standard internal format with source variable names mapped to controlled vocabularies, documentation assembled, and metadata loaded into BODC databases. Access to these data is through direct request, the BODC website and through partner repositories such as SeaDataNet. Access control is attained by assigning a data policy to each set of data and this policy is used to administer access when data are requested. Discovery metadata is aligned with EU INSPIRE (through MEDIN) and SeaDataNet community standards. Data are converted to open community formats including Ocean Data View ASCII and SeaDataNet NetCDF, with data described using terms from the NERC vocabulary server. BODC submission agreements are documented on the BODC website and customer service is assured with a dedicated requests team that serve data following local regulations including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018 and Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) 2004.

Pass
Yes
Statement

This collection comprises raw platform data, and data that were processed through BODC systems with management from partner organisations who own the data. Quality control procedures depend on the platform and data processing level. The data were provided to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for processing through the BODC Autonomous Platforms Data System (APDS) into the OceanGliders OG1.0 community data format. During ingestion, BODC undertakes quality control and documentation and metadata enhancement procedures appropriate for the data type.Instrument(s) used to collect data: optical backscatter sensors; ADVs and turbulence probes; nutrient analysers; CTD; dissolved gas sensors.

Metadata

File identifier
490636f096ad583d823c626393ffbd7a XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2026-03-11T16:09:35
Metadata standard name
MEDIN
Metadata standard version

3.1.2
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Oceanographic Data Centre

Polly Hadziabdic

enquiries@bodc.ac.uk

Point of contact
 
 

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