Internet resources: World largest oceanographic database is created

Estonian startup Marinexplore offered access to the largest archive of the oceanographic information, useful both for professionals and for anyone interested in it. The company Marinexplore, based in Tallinn, said that it has combined in a generalized data base a large number of public and commercial databases, the total volume of which is more than three petabytes (3 million gigabytes) of the world ocean.

"Tools and workflows related to oceanography have changed little over the past 15 years", - says the CEO Rainer Sternfeld. According to him, a huge collected archive allows it easily to find, collect and analyze a variety of oceanographic data. "Before, users had to work with a variety of oceanographic data and manually process the data," - he said.

According to Rainer Sternfeld, the most part of the data is provided by stations US NOAA (U.S. Oceanographic Service National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), but there is also data from such exotic sources as the data of Liquid Robotics, and the data with previously existing monitoring stations.