Geographic Information Systems in Oceanography and Fisheries

ISBN-13: 9780415284639 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 209 str.

Vasilis Valavanis; Valavanis D. Valavanis

Opis

During the 1980s and 1990s there has been increasing recognition that problems in oceanography and fisheries sciences and related marine areas are nearly all manifest in the spatiotemporal domain. Geographical Information Systems (GIS), the natural framework for spatial data handling, are being recognized as a powerful tool with useful applications in marine sciences. 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 and 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.

Spis treści

Marine geographic information systems. GIS and oceanography. GIS and fisheries. Instead of an epilogue.

O autorze

Vasilis Valavanis is a researcher at the Institute of Marine Biology of Crete (IMBC), Greece. His background is in Biological Conservation, GIS, and Remote Sensing through a multidisciplinary curriculum at the Departments of Geography, Ocean Engineering, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Forestry, and Zoology at the University of Florida, USA. He has participated in projects funded by the European Commission and the Greek Government on GIS developments in fisheries research, monitoring of algal blooms, mapping of benthic habitats, extraction of oceanographic features from marine EO data, and use of EO data to the seasonal mapping of species population dynamics.