Integrated maritime data environment (IMDatE)

The Integrated Maritime Data Environment (IMDatE) is a technical framework currently under development. In future, it will combine and process data from EMSA's maritime applications and other external sources to provide more comprehensive and configurable services to users, as well as supporting the relay of data between the applications themselves.

What it does

IMDatE aims to support and enhance the existing EMSA applications, which are already used extensively by the maritime community. The new functionalities will enable users to benefit from improvements to current services, such as more options for data visualisation, a single sign-on process, new machine-to-machine interfaces and automated vessel behaviour monitoring. Verification of data will also improve the quality of data across the systems, for example through the confirmation of vessel details across different vessel registries.

Users who combine functions, for example vessel traffic monitoring and marine pollution control, if they have the necessary access rights, will benefit from being able to obtain an overview of maritime activity in their area of interest, integrating data which would otherwise only be available through a range of different individual applications. This integrated data can be delivered via a user-friendly web interface or distributed automatically to authorised external systems in accordance with the access rights applicable to each data set.

A number of pilot projects have been established to explore the possibility of adding new streams of data to the existing maritime picture provided by the Agency, such as Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS) data and Satellite AIS data. The IMDatE platform will offer a dedicated Data Processing Centre for satellite AIS, and will also facilitate the processing and distribution of other new data sources.