Interoperability as supporting tool for Future Forecasting on coastal and marine areas

ABSTRACT Navas, F., Guisado-Pintado, E., and Malvarez, G., 2016. Interoperability as supporting tool for Future Forecasting on coastal and marine areas. In: Vila-Concejo, A.; Bruce, E.; Kennedy, D.M., and McCarroll, R.J. (eds.), Proceedings of the 14th International Coastal Symposium (Sydney, Australia). Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue, No. 75, pp. 957–961. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. The powerful development of technology has allowed coastal sciences to advance significantly towards developing forecasting tools coupling empirical measurements with computer modelling, which proves to be of paramount importance for most decision making processes. However, coastal models and forecasting tools are data hungry and, whilst data and information availability for regional scales is more abundant than ever, the need for harmonised and compatible data-formats to integrate spatialised data continues to be an issue to feed these models. On the data and information side of development, interope...