Integrated inventory information system

Abstract

The nature of oceanographic data and the management of inventory level information are described in Integrated Inventory Information System (IIIS). It is shown how a ROSCOPO (report on observations/samples collected during oceanographic programme) based inventory type database structure can be evolved to meet the end users' requirements and to provide a generalised inventory information service. IIIS has three sub-systems station, parameter and documentation. It is supported with retrieval system to handle simple and complex user's enquiry. It also supports the graphic facilities. The system is portable and can be implemented on any micro or mini computer system