Smart Ocean™ Systems

Aug 29, 2017

Turning data into knowledge to build a smart ocean

Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) transforms hard science and big data into products and services that benefit society and industry thanks to a timely investment in Smart Ocean™ Systems from Transport Canada, Western Economic Diversification (WED), and IBM Canada.

Gigantic computers were in use for decades before innovative new applications allowed the Internet to become the essential pocket-sized tool we all depend on today. It takes time and effort for specialized technology to evolve into practical use, and it’s no different for ocean observing infrastructure and data.

“You can have big data without information, but you can’t have information without data.” Daniel Keys Moran, computer programmer and sci fi author.
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Smart Ocean™ Systems | oceanographic radar | Oceans Protection Plan | AIS | community observatory

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Coming to Nuu-chah-nulth Territory: exciting developments in ocean monitoring

By Maia Hoeberechts, Associate Director, User Services

It’s always a pleasure to visit Port Alberni, an important partner for Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) and the home of the NEPTUNE observatory shore station. Recently, I travelled with our Indigenous outreach team—Jessica Brown and Mercedes Mclean—to this Vancouver Island community and Nuu-chah-nulth Territory, to introduce the latest proposed community observatory site in ONC’s Smart Ocean™ Systems project.

Building on the successful technology and data delivery of the NEPTUNE and VENUS observatories, ONC has developed a smaller, coastal observing system suitable for near-shore installations. The observatory proposed for Alberni...

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community observatory | port alberni | Nuu-chah-nulth | Smart Ocean™ Systems

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Smart Ocean™ Systems update: ONC on track for five new observatory sites along BC's coast

VICTORIA, B.C. - Now in its second year of funding, the Ocean Networks Canada Smart Ocean™ Systems initiative is making significant progress with plans to install new ocean monitoring stations along the British Columbia coast as far north as Prince Rupert.

ONC Infrastructure in BC Map​

Fig.1 – Map showing locations of sensors for public safety, marine safety and environment monitoring at ONC observatory sites, installed (solid symbols) and planned (open symbols), along the British Columbia coastline.

The first of five proposed community observatories is slated for installation this summer in Campbell River at the southern end of...

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Smart Ocean™ Systems | WERA

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Forging Partnerships with China

BEIJING - The BC Government today announced a number of agreements between BC and Chinese organizations and businesses, including a Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Victoria’s Ocean Networks Canada and the National Ocean and Technology Centre and State Oceanic Administration, for complementary research activity.

With countries around the planet investing hundreds of billions of dollars in the new “Blue Economy,” the director of ONC’s Innovation Centre, Scott McLean has noted a growing interest in ocean observing technology during a trade mission to China, supported by the BC Government this past September.

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China | National Ocean Technology Centre | BC Provincial Government | Smart Ocean™ Systems | Innovation Centre

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