Data and computing for maritime innovation
Maritime innovation is all about data: offshore measurements, ecosystem monitoring, digital models and simulations. At Blue Valley Ostend, you will have access to European marine databases and high-performance computing and be able to convert information into specific applications.
Flanders Marine Institute Data Services
EMODnet
European Marine Observation and Data Network: organisations collaborating to observe the sea, process data and make those data freely available.
WoRMS
World Register of Marine Species: aims to produce a comprehensive list of marine organisms.
EurOBIS
European Ocean Biodiversity Information System: online biogeographic database where information about living marine organisms is stored centrally.
Marine Regions
Standard list of of marine geo-referenced place names and areas.
Scheldemonitor
Flemish-Dutch knowledge portal on research and monitoring in the Scheldt estuary.
EDITO-Infra
European Digital Twin of the Ocean: infrastructure for the European Digital Twin of the Ocean.
IMIS
Integrated Marine Information System: information about datasets, publications, people and institutions related to marine sciences in Flanders.
Marine Data Archive (MDA)
Online archive for data files, independent and fully documented.
The Reef in Bluebridge
Resources: Extended Reality (XR), Digital Twins, Smart Sea Applications, high-performance computing
Applications:
- Offshore and maritime scenarios
- Simulation of control rooms and operations
- Digital Twin applications
Highlight: VR Cave (three-wall stereoscopic space), Control Room (multi-screen), HPC cluster, 360° Camera and SLAM Scanner, Digital Twin & Control Simulation
Location: Bluebridge Incubation and Innovation Centre - Ostend Science Park, Wetenschapspark 1, 8400 Ostend
