NOAA Observing Systems Architecture (NOSA)

The NOSA Web site was designed to provide information that is useful both to the managers of observing systems within NOAA and to the user who wants to know more about NOAA's mission and the environmental parameters it is monitoring and where. The main focus of the site is the Featured Observing System. Each month a NOAA Observing System will be featured with a description and links to the site for the user to learn more about that system. The left-hand side of the new Web site contains detailed information about the NOSA project and related documents, which describe architecture, programs, and requirements for the projects and the observing systems. The geospatial information of more than 80 of these observing systems was collected into a geospatial database with the assistance of the observing system managers. This database forms the basis for the geospatial capabilities of the Web site.