The IMERS database, an integrated way of storing marine environmental readings and samplings

The IMERS database or Integrated Marine Environmental Samples and Readings database was set up at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) in response to the growing need for a general repository that could store the data resulting from sampling campaigns in a uniform way. The database has been designed for storing measurement data based on sampling of water, sediment, suspended matter and biota. The measurement data, the so-called readings, are stored together with a maximum of information on the actual sampling event that lay at the basis of the measurement. This way, for example biotic readings... Mehr ...