IODE National Report for Ecuador
CENDO is the Ecuadorian National Oceanographic Data Center established in 1975 and it is part of the IODE System, located at the city of Guayaquil. Its installations are in the Navy’s Oceanographic Institute (INOCAR), from which it depends. CENDO is devoted to the acquisition, processing, archive, quality control, dissemination and exchange of oceanographic data and information of Ecuadorian’s marine zone. The Ecuadorian Oceanographic Data Center (CENDO) was officially established in July- 1975 as a dependence of the Ecuadorian Navy Oceanographic Institute (INOCAR). Its installations were located in the main building of INOCAR. During its first years of operations CENDO received technical assistance from National Oceanographic and Atmosphere Agency (NOAA) of United States, in order to implement standard and procedures in oceanographic data and information management. Since that date CENDO was incorporated in the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange System and was designated IODE National Coordinator in Ecuador, in charge of plan, coordinate and control National Data Management Program for acquiring, processing, quality control and exchanging of oceanographic data.
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| Format: | Non-Refereed biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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2003
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| Subjects: | Oceanography, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/1778 |
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