The project will design and develop an innovative ICT platform for the collection and analysis of big traffic data, spatial data, environmental data and meteorological data, to support sea area monitoring and observation. The vision is to provide effective and efficient data integration, processing and analysis technologies with the aim to deliver (a) a "Combined Real-time Operational Snapshot", and (b) a "Combined Historical Snapshot" of sea areas. The project will exploit state-of-the-art IT, and design and develop innovative IT based on in-memory database algorithms, models and methods for parallel computation, and methods for big data analytics.