Geographic Information Systems in Oceanography and Fisheries [Hardcover]

Vasilis D. Valavanis (Author)

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Hardcover: 209 pages
Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (May 23 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415284635
ISBN-13: 978-0415284639
Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.6 x 0.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 522 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,804,876 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Over the last two decades there has been increasing recognition that problems in oceanography and fisheries sciences and related marine areas are nearly all manifest in the spatio-temporal domain. Geographical Information Systems (GIS), the natural framework for spatial data handling, are being recognized as powerful tools with useful applications in marine sciences. Geographic Information Systems in Oceanography and Fisheries provides a thorough examination of marine GIS applications that include a wide variety of methods and sophisticated approaches in coastal, continental shelf, and deep ocean studies. It presents new innovative approaches of using GIS in the examination of the dynamic relations that characterize the marine world, including marine GIS macro routines for the development of oceanography and fisheries GIS tools and applications.

This book is divided into four parts. The first gives an overview of marine GIS, including conceptual issues on marine spatial thinking and models of marine GIS development. The second and third parts examine the main sampling methods and online sources of spatially referenced data, and discuss application examples and innovative approaches in GIS developments for many oceanographic and fisheries tasks. The fourth part presents GIS technical issues by listing marine GIS routines for a wide array of GIS tasks.

Anyone with interests in marine GIS development, physical and biological oceanography, fisheries and information based proposals for ocean and fisheries resource management will find this book useful.

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Provides a thorough examination of marine GIS applications that include a high variety of methods and sophisticated approaches in coastal, continental shelf, and deep ocean studies. Some application examples include: the mapping of fish production data, the identification of essential fish habitats, and the mapping of species migration corridors.

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) were 'born' on land; they are around 35 to 40 years old, but only about 15 years ago did they 'migrate' to the sea. Read the first page

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