Big Data Exploitation for Maritime Applications A multi-segment platform to enable maritime big data scenarios

Although a plethora of individual and disconnected applications can be found serving the "data exploitation for marine-related applications" profile, there is a lack of networked initiatives bringing together organisations and knowledge from different scientific and policy domains, as well as geographical areas. The present paper is a work under the European funded research project BigDataOcean(1) and its main objective is to build on this identified need for maritime stakeholders and establish a completely new value chain of interrelated data streams coming from diverse sectors, leveraging existing modern technological breakthroughs in the areas of the big data driven economy. The main output of the proposed approach will be novel services and applications for maritime-related industries, organisations and stakeholders through a multi-segment platform that will combine data of different velocity, variety and volume and will serve as a constantly growing pool of cross-sectorial and multi-lingual linked data, bringing together organisations of different activity fields and needs.