Newsletter Articles

Crowds ‘Flood’ to Ocean Business 2017

We exhibited at Ocean Business 2017 at the National Oceanographic Centre in Southampton on 4-6 April. Foot fall once again exceeded all expectations with over 4000 attendees from 61 countries and we also attracted an large number of enquiries about our products and services on our stand. This show is fast becoming our ‘blue ribbon’ […]

First Session of IHO Assembly Calls for Wider Use of Hydrographic Data

Over 350 people, comprising delegations from 77 International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO) Member and Associate Member States, UN bodies, industry partners and associated stakeholders, gathered in Monaco on 24-28 April for the First Session of the IHO Assembly. Much of the focus was on how hydrographic data is managed and shared, and how national Hydrographic Offices […]

Scottish GIS Workshop Success

OceanWise hosted a successful Marine Data Management and GIS Workshop at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 23 May. Attendees were treated to a great programme covering topical cultural, scientific and technical matters of importance to Scotland including an great presentation about its year of Culture, History and Heritage, delving into the richness of its […]

Why Data Governance – Your Data Does Matter!

We are very good at collecting marine data but not so adept at managing it or realising its value to our business. With data volumes doubling every 1.2 years and 90% of all data existing today having been created in the last 2 years, you would think that data governance would be a priority! Without […]

Product News

The annual update of the Marine Themes Digital Elevation Model (DEM) was completed and delivered to all our Licensed Partners and direct, primarily public sector, licensees in January. Web Services using the DEM were also updated. ‘The DEM includes digital survey data from the UK and other Hydrographic Offices augmented by over 500 paper survey […]

OceanWise in Vancouver!

We recently attended the 8th International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO) Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Working Group (MSDIWG);for which OceanWise provides the Secretariat; which was hosted by the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) part of Fisheries and Oceans Canada at The Metropolitan Hotel, Vancouver, Canada. MSDIWG-8 was attended by 22 participants from 9 countries including expert contributors from […]

Marine Data Management Awareness Course

OceanWise, in co-operation with IMarEST, hosted a one-day Marine Data Management Awareness Course at IMarEST HQ in London on Wednesday 8th February 2017. In a packed programme, sessions on data governance, the data life-cycle, data quality and publishing ensured attendees were better able to appreciate just how important data management now is and how they […]

Data Really Does Matter – The Outcome from our Data Management & GIS Workshop

The outcome of the concluding panel discussion at OceanWise’ 5th annual Marine Data Management and GIS Workshop, held in London on 22nd November, was that ‘data management really does matter’! It was suggested that organisations need to devote more time and effort to this task to ensure their operations remain efficient and competitive in a […]

ABP Group Port-Log Roll Out

We are delighted to announce that Associated British Ports (ABP) has selected Port-Log for its group wide Tide and Weather system. The project has not required any of ABP’s existing sensors to be replaced. A major benefit of Port-Log.net is its ability to accommodate a wide range of sensors from different manufacturers. Consequently, pressing deadlines […]

SWE Pilot Report Published by MEDIN

Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) provides a suite of standards that allows environmental monitoring data to be published in a consistent way over the Internet. SWE was developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and provides a means by which sensors can join the ‘Internet of Things’. In 2016 the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network […]