The BigDataOcean project was presented during “Challenges to exploit to exploit Big Maritime Data” workshop held by National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos” on July 6 2017. The workshop was part of 5th Hellenic Forum for science, technology & innovation and promoted the collaboration between the BigDataOcean and datAcron projects.
The BigDataOcean project had a strong presence at the forum having two project partners invited to talk at the workshop. First, professor Dimitris Askounis and Panagiotis Kokkinakos from NTUA presented an overview of the BigDataOcean platform. Then, Dimitris Zissis and Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis presented research challenges faced and lessons learned in order to transform geo-spatial data into actionable intelligence while working with MarineTraffic platform.
