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2 The MDI-DE network
The marine data infrastructure for Germany MDI-DE contributes to the achievement of
these objectives. All participating Federal and State agencies benefit from this network,
which established information technology to be used in the future for data dissemination
and for meeting reporting requirements.
2.1 Partners in the German coastal zone
Coastal engineering and coastal water protection
BAW Hamburg - Federal Waterways and Engineering Research Institute
LKN Husum and Tönning - Schleswig-Holstein State Agency for Coastal Defence,
National Park and Marine Conservation
NLWKN Norden-Norderney and Brake-Oldenburg - Lower Saxony Water Management,
Coastal Defence and Nature Conservation Agency
NLPV Wilhelmshaven - Administration of die Wadden Sea National Park of Lower
Saxony
WSD Nordwest in Aurich / Nord in Kiel - Waterways and Shipping Directorate North-WSD-N
and Northwest WSD-NW
Marine environmental protection
BSH Hamburg - Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency Hamburg BSH
LLUR Flintbek - State Agency for agriculture, environment and rural areas of the State
of Schleswig-Holstein
LUNG Güstrow - State Agency of Environment, Nature conservation and Geology in
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Marine nature conservation
BfN Insel Vilm - Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Vilm Office, BfN
Scientific accompanying research
Universität Rostock - Chair of Geodesy and Geoinformatics at the LTniversity of
Rostock
2.1.1 Coastal engineering and coastal water protection
A key objective of the research work at BAW was to support the data management for
numerical modelling. To this end, harmonization of data sets maintained in distributed
data bases and interoperability of field data and modelling data through the use of web
services have been studied. Similarly, the standardized documentation of data and models
with metadata for identifying scenarios and for intersectoral data mining has been
focused on.
