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...