OASIS joins sensor data across different monitoring platforms centralizing all project information in one centralized location. The system is “overarching” because it centralizes all information (data and documents).

Benefits:​

• Improves sensor data management, stewardship and tractability so authorized stakeholders can find, access, interpret, and reuse the project's digital assets.

• Archiving both the database and the field monitoring data files improves long-term care of the project's valuable digital assets.

• Centralizing project information promotes transparency, consistency and accountability. Problems of different data and documentation versions, inconsistent or out-of-date nomenclature, etc. are significantly reduced.

• Relating data together allows investigators to discover and correct inconsistencies in the data improving both spatial and temporal accuracy of the information.

• Transforms raw data coming into the system to meaningful and actionable information with rich meta-data and accessibility.

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OASIS works with both long-term monitoring projects with relatively static sensors and active testing sites where sensors are being moved, exchanged, and reconfigured. The system documents what sensors measure, the types of sensors, how the sensors are configured and when measurements are done. This can save significant efforts later in the office when personnel try to relate field notes with data.