This book 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.
Geographic Information Systems in Oceanography and Fisheries 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.
Some application examples include:
- The mapping of fish production data (catch and landings)
- The identification of essential fish habitats
- The mapping of species migration corridors
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.
Contents
- Marine Geographic Information Systems
- Introduction
- The Essential Goal of Marine GIS
- Spatial Thinking and GIS Analysis in the Marine Context
- Conceptual Model of a Marine GIS
- GIS and Scientific Visualization Systems
- Software Issues and Packages for Marine GIS Development
- GIS and Oceanography
- Introduction
- The Use of GIS in Various Fields of Oceanography
- Worldwide Oceanographic GIS Initiatives
- Online Oceanographic GIS Tools
- Oceanographic Data Sources and GIS Databases
- Identification of Temperature and Chlorophyll Fronts
- Identification and Measurement of Gyres
- Classification of Surface Waters
- Mapping of the Seabed
- GIS and Fisheries
- Introduction
- Worldwide Fisheries GIS Tools and Initiatives
- GIS Applications in Marine and Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture
- Fisheries Data Sampling Methods
- Fisheries Data Sources and GIS Databases
- Mapping Production, Biological and Genetic Data
- Mapping of Spawning Grounds
- Mapping Environmental Variation of Production
- Mapping Migration Corridors
- Mapping Seasonal Essential Habitats
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