Collection and Analysis of Ocean Big Data: Building the EMSODEV Data Management Platform using EGI Federated Cloud

Abstract

Collecting ocean data and analysing them on a day-to-day basis are two big challenges to face in order to continuously monitor environmental processes including natural hazards, climate change, and marine ecosystems. The EMSODEV Data Management Platform (DMP) will simultaneously collect and analyse a number of chemical and physical parameters of the sea, addressing needs from a very large user community as biologists, geoscientists, chemists, and engineers. DMP has been designed to exploit capabilities of e-Infrastructures to develop a flexible and scalable Data Management Service for a long-term, high-resolution, (near) real-time monitoring by providing a coordinated approach for data capture, archiving, management and delivery based on OGC standards.