An investment of $577,000 has been made by CANARIE to enhance access to and processing of big data collected by Ocean Networks Canada (ONC). ONC’s cabled ocean observatories support hundreds of underwater and on-land sensors that generate a huge volume of continuous, high-resolution data about the ocean.

MP John Aldag making the CANARIE funding announcement on 13 September 2016.

As the size of ONC’s data archive grows the need for enhanced tools to help researchers efficiently process and understand a fire hose of data is...