Ocean Hackathon®: an ocean of data!
Research organisations and administrations collect large volumes of data to improve knowledge and support public policy. Ocean Hackathon® is an opportunity to explore the great potential of this data to address social, economic and environmental challenges.
Wherever you participate in the world, you will have access to a variety of datasets to help you tackle the challenges and enrich the prototypes. The event organisers, national data providers and local data providers collect data at small, global and regional scales. Some of the datasets you will have access to Ocean Hackathon® are not normally available for free.
Within the framework of Ocean Hackathon®, many data partners contribute to the provision of data and tools for the teams. This list of partners will evolve in 2023.
Help for participants with navigating the data: The Ocean Hackathon® Data Catalogue
This enables participants to search for data, visualise and access it! Access to the Data Catalogue will be open during Ocean Hackathon®.
Support for participants and help with using the data: Tutorials and coaches
All our data tutorials and resources are centralised in a private space on the Ocean Hackathon® website that is open to participants during the event.
Data coaches are available both on site and remotely to assist teams. An online Data Coach Centre facilitates contact between coaches and participants.
Blue-Cloud
Blue-Cloud is the pilot European Open Science platform for collaborative marine research. Its Virtual Research Environment federates multidisciplinary data repositories, analytical tools, and computing facilities to allow researchers to combine, reuse, and share quality data across disciplines and countries. Blue-Cloud will provides access to its Data Discovery and Access service, enabling users to find and retrieve more than 10.5 million data sets and a few thousand data collections and derived data products from 9 different data providers, as well as to the Blue-Cloud Virtual Labs, real-life scenarios to perform research in biodiversity, genomics, environment, fisheries and acquaculture.
Cedre
French State-approved association with an expertise in accidental water pollution. Cedre has been operating in France and abroad for nearly 40 years. Cedre has five main activities: response support, contingency planning, training, analysis and testing and research. Cedre is are also a recognized resource centre.
Cerema
Cerema is the major French public agency for developing and capitalising on public expertise in the fields of planning, regional cohesion, and ecological and energy transition. Cerema will provide data on maritime traffic.
Copernicus Marine Service
The Copernicus Marine Service (CMEMS) is dedicated to ocean observation, monitoring and forecasting. It provides free, open, regular and systematic reference information on the blue (physical), white (sea ice), and green (biogeochemical) ocean state, variability and dynamics across the global ocean and European regional seas.
EMODnet
The European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) is a network of organisations supported by the EU’s integrated maritime policy. These organisations work together to observe the sea, process the data according to international standards and make that information freely available as interoperable data layers and data products.
French Office of Biodiversity
The French Office for Biodiversity (OFB) is a public establishment dedicated to the protection and restoration of biodiversity in metropolitan France and overseas France, under the supervision of the Ministries of Ecological Transition and Agriculture and Food.
Global Fishing Watch
Global Fishing Watch is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing ocean governance through increased transparency of human activity at sea. By creating and publicly sharing map visualizations, data and analysis tools, we aim to enable scientific research and transform the way our ocean is managed. We believe human activity at sea should be public knowledge in order to safeguard the global ocean for the common good of all.
Groupement Bretagne Télédétection (BreTel)
The Groupement Bretagne Télédétection (BreTel) is a regional structure that aims to promote and support the development and use of space technologies and applications in Brittany. BreTel animates, federates, supports and promotes the regional space ecosystem, including public and private actors of research, economic development, training, and usages.
IFREMER
A pioneer in ocean science, IFREMER’s cutting-edge research is grounded in sustainable development and open science.
Our vision is to advance science, expertise and innovation to protect and restore the ocean, sustainably use marine resources to benefit society and create and share ocean data, information & knowledge.
Our vision is to advance science, expertise and innovation to protect and restore the ocean, sustainably use marine resources to benefit society and create and share ocean data, information & knowledge.
INDIGEO
Indigeo is a Spatial Data Infrastructure implemented by LETG Research Unit (CNRS) and Brest Marine European Institute (IUEM). It offers various services for the dissemination, cataloging and visualization of geographic data and time series. During the event, Indigeo provides a geoCMS viewer which offers the possibility of finding, organizing, visualizing and query spatial data. It also proposes to save maps and share or embed them into web pages useful to prototype web application.
Le Havre University
The LITIS Computer Sciences Laboratory of University Le Havre Normandie carries out research dealing with information processing, real-time data, internet of things, graph, network and blockchains with application domains around logistics and maritime traffic. Through its partneship with AISHub, the University of Le Havre gives access to AIS vessel tracking data at a global scale.
MERCATOR OCEAN INTERNATIONAL
Mercator Ocean International is a non-profit company providing ocean science-based services focused on the conservation and the sustainable use of the oceans, seas and marine resources. Mercator Ocean implements the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service as part of the European Earth Observation programme Copernicus.
METEO-FRANCE
Météo-France is the national weather and climate service. Its primary mission is to ensure the meteorological safety of people and property. This is done by drawing up a weather vigilance map indicating dangerous phenomena, their consequences and the precautions to be taken to protect oneself. The meteorological vigilance system is completed in mainland France by marine bulletins and avalanche risk assessment bulletins, and overseas by a cyclone watch and warning system.
ODATIS
The ODATIS Ocean Cluster (Ocean Data Information and Services) is the entry point to access all the French Ocean observation data. Its aim is to promote and facilitate the use of Ocean observations sampled by way of in situ and remote sensing measurements. ODATIS contributes to describing, quantifying and understanding the ocean as a whole — offshore and coastal.
PatriNat - French Centre of expertise and data on nature
Since January 2017, the Joint Service Unit “Natural Heritage” has been carrying out expert and knowledge management missions for its three supervisory bodies, which are The Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - French National Natural History Museum), the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB) and the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
Its objective is to provide expertise based on the collection and analysis of biodiversity and geodiversity data present on French territory and on the mastery and contribution of new knowledge in ecology, evolutionary sciences and anthropology. This expertise, based on a scientific approach, should help to raise questions and propose answers to improve public policies on biodiversity, geodiversity and their relationships with societies and humans.
Its objective is to provide expertise based on the collection and analysis of biodiversity and geodiversity data present on French territory and on the mastery and contribution of new knowledge in ecology, evolutionary sciences and anthropology. This expertise, based on a scientific approach, should help to raise questions and propose answers to improve public policies on biodiversity, geodiversity and their relationships with societies and humans.
Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique
Created in France in 2005 and firmly established in Bretagne - Pays de la Loire, bringing together over 400 players consisting of major companies, SMEs, research bodies and higher education establishments, the Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique cluster contributes to the economic development of France’s marine and maritime sector. Pôle Mer aims to stimulate and support collaborative projects, involving both companies and research labs, in the development of innovative products and services, which will make the difference on international markets. Since its creation, the Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique has supported and certified 463 innovative projects for 1,15 billion € of R&D.
Shom
The Shom, heir to the first official hydrographic service in the world (1720), is a public administrative establishment under the supervision of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces.
It is the public operator for maritime and coastal geographic information.
It is the public operator for maritime and coastal geographic information.
SIMM
The marine environment information system is dedicated to give access to data produced to answer to public policies. Its catalog concern data about marine protected areas (MPA), marine monitoring network and marine-related economic and social activities.
WEkEO
WEkEO is the EU's Copernicus DIAS (Data and Information Access Service) reference service for environmental data, virtual environments for data processing and skilled user support. WEkEO DIAS Service is implemented by EUMETSAT, ECMWF, EEA, and MERCATOR OCEAN INTERNATIONAL
