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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 Manage 
ment, 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.