oceancube
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Purpose
oceancube is being developed as a reproducible framework for acquiring, harmonizing, and organizing multidimensional oceanographic data used in marine ecology and fisheries science.
Scientific problem
Environmental products often differ in spatial resolution, temporal coverage, depth structure, coordinate conventions, file formats, variable names, units, and missing-value definitions. These inconsistencies can make analyses difficult to reproduce and can introduce avoidable processing errors.
Planned capabilities
- Download or register marine environmental products from supported sources.
- Standardize coordinates, dates, depth dimensions, units, and variable names.
- Subset data by area, time period, depth range, and variable.
- Aggregate daily and monthly products using explicit rules.
- Build analysis-ready raster, array, and tabular outputs.
- Record provenance, processing history, and quality-control results.
- Support extraction at survey stations, fishing sets, spatial grids, and polygons.
Intended applications
- Habitat and species-distribution modelling.
- Spatio-temporal fisheries analysis.
- Environmental characterization of acoustic surveys.
- Climate and ecosystem indicators.
- Integration of physical and biogeochemical products.
- Reproducible preparation of CMEMS and satellite data.
Development status
Active development. Core workflows are being organized around repeatable acquisition, preprocessing, validation, and export steps. Public documentation, tests, a stable license, and versioned releases will be added before external distribution.
Data principles
oceancube will not redistribute restricted source data. It is intended to preserve source attribution, product identifiers, access conditions, variable metadata, and reproducible processing instructions.
Related work
See Reproducible marine data systems and the Data catalogue.