The invention relates to a development platform of a distributed marine observation software system based on a sensor. The development platform comprises a time profile module, a vertical profile module, an element associated module, a data list module, a data exporting module, a rose diagram module, a navigation map module, a data management module, a network service module, a system configuration module, a data collection module and a system assembling module. The invention further relates to a development method of the distributed marine observation software system based on the sensor for realizing the platform; and by adopting the platform and the method for developing software, the efficiency is high, the period is short and the development cost is obviously saved. The developed software is uniform in design structure, and stable and reliable in performance; the distributed systems can be integrated without seam; and the interoperability is strong.