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R/V Belgica A962 Underway data (ODAS)

The RV Belgica underway data set comprises all data gathered with the Oceanographic Data Acquisition System (ODAS) aboard the RV Belgica. The standard data acquisition rate evolved from 10 minutes (1984-1986) to 10 seconds (from 1996 on). The stored parameters are: navigational and position parameters, bathymetric data, meteorological data, hydrological data. Together with the parameter values information about the data quality are stored. In addition to the data, the dataset contains information on the available parameters, measurement instruments and instrument history. The dataset can be accessed via web services or made available by request. Via the web services, currently a 1 minute frequency with a 30 minute lag is available. Data requests can be addressed to the contact persons listed and can have any frequency.

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Date (Creation)
2020-03-10T14:35:24Z
Date (Revision)
2021-11-25T09:46:07Z
Date (Publication)
2025-12-29T16:12:59.194Z
Date (Creation)
2016-05-19
Unique resource identifier
https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:2320
Identifier
bmdc.be:dataset:2320

Belgian Marine Data Centre

Other citation details

This dataset is composed of the following sources: (1) Belgica data request to BMDC. (2) Belgica data request to MSO. (3) EARS Acquisition last 24h meteo data (datagram). (4) EARS Acquisition last 24h meteo data (json). (5) EARS Acquisition last 24h meteo data (xml). (6) EARS Acquisition last 24h navigation data (datagram). (7) EARS Acquisition last 24h navigation data (json). (8) EARS Acquisition last 24h navigation data (xml). (9) EARS Acquisition last 24h thermosalinometry data (datagram). (10) EARS Acquisition last 24h thermosalinometry data (json). (11) EARS Acquisition last 24h thermosalinometry data (xml). (12) EARS Acquisition last meteo data (datagram). (13) EARS Acquisition last meteo data (json). (14) EARS Acquisition last meteo data (xml). (15) EARS Acquisition last navigation data (datagram). (16) EARS Acquisition last navigation data (json). (17) EARS Acquisition last navigation data (xml). (18) EARS Acquisition last thermosalinometry data (datagram). (19) EARS Acquisition last thermosalinometry data (json). (20) EARS Acquisition last thermosalinometry data (xml). (21) EARS Acquisition meteo data between two dates (datagram). (22) EARS Acquisition meteo data between two dates (json). (23) EARS Acquisition meteo data between two dates (xml). (24) EARS Acquisition navigation data between two dates (datagram). (25) EARS Acquisition navigation data between two dates (json). (26) EARS Acquisition navigation data between two dates (xml). (27) EARS Acquisition thermosalinometry data between two dates (xml). (28) RV Belgica A962 - INSPIRE Environmental Monitoring Facility. (29) RV Belgica A962 - INSPIRE Environmental Monitoring Facility (INSPIRE-compliant GML).

Author
  Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
http://www.bmdc.be
Publisher
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.naturalsciences.be
Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Owner
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.naturalsciences.be
Author
  Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Measurement Services Ostend (MSO)
3e en 23e Linieregimentsplein, 8400 Oostende, Belgium ,
Author
  Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://odnature.naturalsciences.be/
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Environmental monitoring facilities
Theme
  • marine data

European Legislation Identifier
  • Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 of 21 December 2022 laying down a list of specific high-value datasets and the arrangements for their publication and re-use (Text with EEA relevance)
Marine Regions
  • Belgian part of the North Sea
  • Greater North Sea, incl. the Kattegat and the English Channel
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1
  • marine monitoring
Belgian Federal Thesaurus
  • Environmental data
INSPIRE Registry: Priority Datasets
  • Directive 2008/56/EC
Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium
  • Environment
High-value dataset categories
  • Environmental monitoring facilities
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

No limitations on public access.

Use limitation

Data available in the public domain (CC0). Data is free for any use.

Classification
Unclassified
Spatial representation type
Vector
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Oceans
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Extent type code
Yes
Date
Unique resource identifier
North Atlantic Ocean
Extent type code
Yes
Date
Unique resource identifier
North Sea
Extent type code
Yes
Date
Unique resource identifier
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone
gml32:beginPosition
1985-08-19
Reference system identifier
EPSG / http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/3035
Distribution format
  • text/csv ( Unknown )

  • application/json ( Unknown )

  • application/xml ( Unknown )

  • application/gml+xml ( Unknown )

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

text/csv

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition meteo data between two dates (datagram) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in CSV

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

application/json

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition meteo data between two dates (json) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in JSON

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

application/xml

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition meteo data between two dates (xml) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in XML

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

text/csv

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition last meteo data (datagram) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in CSV

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

application/json

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition last meteo data (json) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in JSON

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

application/xml

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition last meteo data (xml) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in XML

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

text/csv

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition last 24h meteo data (datagram) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in CSV

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

application/json

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition last 24h meteo data (json) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in JSON

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

application/xml

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition last 24h meteo data (xml) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in XML

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

text/csv

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition navigation data between two dates (datagram) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in CSV

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

application/json

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition navigation data between two dates (json) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in JSON

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

application/xml

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition navigation data between two dates (xml) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in XML

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

text/csv

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition last navigation data (datagram) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in CSV

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

application/json

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition last navigation data (json) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in JSON

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

application/xml

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition last navigation data (xml) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in XML

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

text/csv

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition last 24h navigation data (datagram) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in CSV

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

text/csv

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition last 24h thermosalinometry data (datagram) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in CSV

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

application/json

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition last 24h navigation data (json) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in JSON

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

application/json

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition last 24h thermosalinometry data (json) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in JSON

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

application/xml

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition last 24h navigation data (xml) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in XML

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

application/xml

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition last 24h thermosalinometry data (xml) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in XML

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

application/xml

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition thermosalinometry data between two dates (xml) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in XML

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

text/csv

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition last thermosalinometry data (datagram) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in CSV

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

application/json

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition last thermosalinometry data (json) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in JSON

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

application/xml

Version

Unknown

OnLine resource
EARS Acquisition last thermosalinometry data (xml) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in XML

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

application/xml

Version

Unknown

Transfer size
0.22797
OnLine resource
od_nature:monitoring_facilities ( OGC:WMS )

A WMS service to view a map

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

application/xml

Version

Unknown

Transfer size
0.110439
OnLine resource
od_nature:monitoring_facilities ( OGC:WFS )

A WFS service to download

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

application/gml+xml

Version

Unknown

Transfer size
0.003569
OnLine resource
RV Belgica A962 - INSPIRE Environmental Monitoring Facility (INSPIRE-compliant GML) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in INSPIRE-compliant GML

OnLine resource
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) ( DOI )
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Statement

The data is quality checked in real-time and flagged accordingly. Depending on the dataset delivered, the dataset contains only accepted values or contains flagged data as well. Possible values for quality flags are: Flag code explanation in Dutch M 1 Een toestel werkt niet. U 2 Geen update van de gegevens sinds de laatste stockage. V 4 Ongeldige data (v.b. gegevens formaat niet correct). D 8 Fout "buiten bereik" van de digitale voltmeter. R 16 Minimum / maximum test. G 32 Gradiënt test. = 64 Niet gebruikt. S 128 Verdachte data, indicatie gegeven door een meetsysteem. Only direct data requests from Ostend contain these flags, the other data sources only contain valid data.

File identifier
bmdc.be:dataset:2320 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-12-29T16:12:59.194Z
Metadata standard name

Geographic information -- Metadata

Metadata standard version

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Point of contact
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
 
 

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Keywords

marine data
Belgian Federal Thesaurus
Environmental data
European Legislation Identifier
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 of 21 December 2022 laying down a list of specific high-value datasets and the arrangements for their publication and re-use (Text with EEA relevance)
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1
marine monitoring
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Environmental monitoring facilities
High-value dataset categories
Environmental monitoring facilities
INSPIRE Registry: Priority Datasets
Directive 2008/56/EC
Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium
Environment

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