Register a glider mission

how can you register a glider mission in OceanOPS?

OceanOPS provides real-time tracking and plays a key role in enhancing data accessibility, interoperability, and long-term ocean monitoring to support climate research, marine ecosystems, and operational oceanography.

Here are the steps to register a glider mission:

Connect to OceanGliders Dashboard at OceanOPS
Make sure the National Glider Program where you want to register your deployment is already existing (otherwise contact the technical coordinator to create a new National Glider Programme)
Register your gliders with a WMO ID following the steps on the tutorial below
Charge a file with the metadata of the deployment you want to register

Acces OceanGliders Network

Tutorial to request WMO ID for OceanGliders

Users can only request ID for national program if they are members !

Connect to OceanGliders Dashboard at OceanOPS
Log in with your account or create one
Click on Submit and Request IDs
In "Select values" fill up the fields with the name of the Glider Programme, the glider model used and the number of IDs you want to request
In "Customize" add the glider name and the serial No.
Submit your request

Tutorial to submit Metadata to OceanOPS -OceanGliders

Users can only submit Metadata to OceanOPS if they are members, their national program exists already on OceanGliders and they have already requested WMO IDs for their gliders!

Connect to OceanGliders Dashboard at OceanOPS
Log in with your account or create one
Click on Submit --> Missions --> Upload
At this point:
- if you use Coriolis DAC you can just charge your JSON file
- if use other DACs you can charge a CSV file with the indicated fields (click below to download the example file)
For info on controlled vocabularies for "mandatory" metadata in the OG 1.0 format check the OceanGliders user manual