GETTING STARTED ON THE OCEAN DATA PLATFORM
Unleashing the power of data for a healthier ocean
GETTING STARTED
New User?
Use spatial and thematic search to find data.
Search data on Marine Protected Areas (MPA), extract MPA polygon in your area of interest.
FIND DATA
Explore and filter data in the catalog
Explore the attributes and summary statistics of your chosen dataset. Then use the “Explore Table” function and filter based on geometry or other fields of interest.
EXPLORE DATA
Create a private data collection for you and your collaborators.
From the My Data space, add a new data collection, giving a title and a description about your project.
CREATE DATA
COLLECTION
Experience how easy it is to upload data to ODP.
Example: Add a tabular dataset—this could be:
Something you just downloaded from ODP catalog
A csv with geometry extracted from a scientific paper (e.g., Van Woesik and Kratochwill 2022). Link to CSV.
UPLOAD YOUR DATA
ANALYZE IN A WORKSPACE
Analyse your data using open source resources like ODP workspaces and Google collab
Upload the result back to your shared data collection
Explore data from ODP directly in your local QGIS or ArcGIS environment
INTEGRATE IN YOUR LOCAL GIS
Make your datasets available by pressing the “Request to Publish” button. Once the dataset has been reviewed and approved by HUB Ocean, the dataset will be published to our open catalog searchable within ODP and crawlable by Google.
PUBLISH YOUR DATA
WATCH OUR VIDEO TUTORIALS.
How Did you Find the Experience?
Feedback Form | ODP 2025
Read Brenda’s article outlining her user journey.
“You can think of it as the Spotify of ocean data. Their focus is on bringing diverse “albums” of marine information into a high-powered streaming ecosystem.” Brenda Varguez, Ocean Data Platform user
What to learn more from a user?
About HUB Ocean
HUB Ocean is an independent, non-profit foundation headquartered in Norway, operating globally. Born from a collaboration between the World Economic Forum and the Aker Group, we lead the Ocean Data Action Coalition for the Ocean Panel and support the UN Ocean Decade through the UN Corporate Data Group.