The UTM Data Centre is responsible for managing spatial data acquired during oceanographic cruises on board Spanish CSIC research vessels and RV Hespérides.
The aim is, on the one hand, to disseminate which data exist and where, how and when they have been acquired. And on the other hand, to provide access to as much of the interoperable data as possible, following the FAIR principles, so that they can be used and reused.
For this purpose, the UTM has a Spatial Data Infrastructure at a national level that consists of several services.
At an international level, the UTM is a National Oceanographic Data Centre (NODC) of the Distributed European Marine Data Infrastructure SeaDataNet, to which the UTM provides metadata published in the Cruise Summary Report Inventory and in the data catalog Common Data Index Catalogue, as well as open data to be shared.