Business View Magazine - October 2016 17
According to sources, Tsinghua University is building
a remote sensing big data center to support the de-
velopment of maritime big data, including an ocean
storm surge and inland flood monitoring and early-
warning system, marine remote sensing big data min-
ing, and analysis and innovative application of naviga-
tion satellite in maritime fields.
Wang Lei, from the Institute of Oceanology, reported
that his Institute, in cooperation with Qingdao Bang-
bang Information Co., Ltd., has developed the CAS
Scientific and Technical Service Network Project
which has been operating in fish and crab farming for
about three years with over 400,000 users. Experts
said this project has built a smart aquaculture and big
data platform which can collect and analyze all major
influential factors in farming in a comprehensive way,
and achieve process monitoring, environmental early-
warning, data processing, and technical guidance.
The Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science
and Technology is also dedicated to maritime big data
development and is building petaflop supercomput-
ers, which will be fastest supercomputers in the mari-
time field for China.
Wu Lixin, Director of Qingdao National Laboratory for
Marine Science and Technology, proposed the “Trans-
parent Ocean Project,” which uses satellite sensing,
intelligent buoy, underwater glider, underwater robot,
deep-sea space station, and other equipment to ac-
quire, in real-time, the general information of a ma-
rine environment at different depths in certain areas,
while supporting channel safety, marine ecological
environment and resources safety, maritime disaster
prevention, and relief and weather forecasting.
