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North Temperate Lakes LTER's streaming sensor data are being used as one of three "science experiments" in a NSF Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) project led by Tony Fountain (CalIT2, UCSD). A major focus of this collaborative project is software integration in complex science environments. This involves strategic software development, systems integration, and testing through demonstration projects (i.e., science experiments). Major requirements for the software developed by this project include performance, usability, interoperability, and cyber-security. In addition to NTL LTER, these software products will be integrated into production research infrastructures at Purdue University, the University of Connecticut, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute to answer important science questions, including: (1) What is the impact of uncertainty in the design of civil infrastructure? (2) How sensitive are ocean systems to pH changes? (3) What is the variability of lake metabolic parameters such as gross primary productivity and respiration?One goal of this collaboration is to make integrating the Open Source Data Turbine (OSDT) streaming data middleware with other environmental community software tools more robust and accessible to information managers. In the first project phase, the existing OSDT - MATLAB interface was improved by developing a toolkit (DTMatlabTK) of easy-to-use MATLAB functions for interacting with Data Turbine servers. Building on these improvements, code was developed to directly access data in OSDT using the GCE Data Toolbox for MATLAB (developed at Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER) to provide a robust, automated and configurable QA/QC environment for harvesting real-time sensor data. The GCE Data Toolbox was then used to transform data to be compatible with the CUAHSI Observations Data Model (ODM, see Resources section below for links), and insert processed OSDT data into an ODM database to support an end-to-end workflow from NTL data buoys to a CUAHSI Hydrologic Information Server.

Gries, C., Sheldon, W.M. Jr., Fountain, T., Sebranek, C., Miller, M. and Tilak, S. 2013. Integrating Open Source Data Turbine with the GCE Data Toolbox for MATLAB. In: LTER Databits - Information Management Newsletter of the Long Term Ecological Research Network: Spring 2013. LTER Network, Albuquerque, NM.