Data Infrastructure

The importance of marine technical and scientific data was recognised early on by IH:

• In 1988, an internal programme was developed to build the Oceanographic Data Centre (ODC);
• In 1996, the Centre for the Management of Technical and Scientific Data (CDT) was created in the Technical Directorate (DT), with the aim of developing an information system for the management of geospatial data, called the Geographic Information System on the Marine Environment (SIGAMAR);
• In 2004, as a result of developments in geospatial information management, SIGAMAR evolved into the Marine Environment Geospatial Data Infrastructure (IDAMAR);
• In 2018, following an organisational change at DT, the CDT became the Geographic Information Systems Office (GIS);
• In 2020, the CDT was re-established as a division of DT.

IH's current marine geospatial data infrastructure (MSDI), called Hidrográfico+ and managed by the CDT, reflects this evolution.