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GEOINFORMATICS for Marine and Coastal Management
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xxix, 413 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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9781498731546

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Geoinformatics for Marine and Coastal Management provides a timely and valuable assessment of the current state of the art geoinformatics tools and methods for the management of marine systems. This book focuses on the cutting-edge coverage of a wide spectrum of activities and topics such as GIS-based application of drainage basin analysis, contribution of ontology to marine management, geoinformatics in relation to fisheries management, hydrography, indigenous knowledge systems, and marine law enforcement. The authors present a comprehensive overview of the field of Geoinformatic Applications in Marine Management covering key issues and debates with specific case studies illustrating real-world applications of the GIS technology. This "box of tools" serves as a long-term resource for coastal zone managers, professionals, practitioners, and students alike on the management of oceans and the coastal fringe, promoting the approach of allowing sustainable and integrated use of oceans to maximize opportunities while keeping risks and hazards to a minimum.


Author Notes

Darius Bartlett is an earth scientist and geomorphologist by training, has been teaching and researching at the interface between GIS and coastal zone science and management in the Department of Geography at the University College Cork in Ireland for over a quarter-century, and is a past director of the department's MSc in GIS and remote sensing and the MSc in applied coastal and marine management taught programs. As a corresponding member of the Commission on Coastal Systems of the International Geographical Union, he helped establish the CoastGIS Biennial Symposium Series, in partnership with Ron Furness (then at the Australian Hydrographic Office and chair of the International Cartographic Association's Commission on Coastal Mapping), and hosted the first meeting as a collaboration between the two organisations in Cork in 1995 (the 12th meeting in the series was held in Cape Town in April 2015). He is the co-editor of Marine and Coastal Geographical Information Systems (with Dawn Wright, Taylor & Francis, 2000) and GIS for Coastal Zone Management (with Jennifer Smith, CRC Press, 2005).

Louis Celliers is employed by the CSIR in a dual role as a principal researcher in, and heads up the Coastal Systems Research Group of the Natural Resources and the Environment Business Unit. He completed his graduate (BSc Agric) and postgraduate studies (MSc Agric) at the University of Pretoria in 1998, followed by his PhD in marine ecology at the University of Natal, South Africa in 2001. The responsibilities of his portfolio include the integration of coastal and marine science with management of the coastal area by the three spheres of government in South Africa. His research interests and profes- sional development strongly favour an approach that guides, integrates and translates good science to the benefit of society through the maintenance of natural systems. His main research interests, and focus of his published work, are in the area of integrated coastal management, coastal governance and institutions and science to policy process for the improvement of coastal and marine management.


Table of Contents

Darius Bartlett and Louis CelliersGill Scott and Xavier Monteys and David Hardy and Charise McKeon and Thomas FureyPaul K. Murphy and Andrew J. WheelerMelanie Lück-VogelDian Zhang and Noel F. O'Connor and Fiona ReganYassine Lassoued and Adam LeadbetterGrace Goldberg and Mimi D'Iorio and Will McClintockLauren McWhinnie and Kate GormleyPhillip SaundersShankar AswaniTom Barry and Tom Christensen and Soffia Guðmundsdóttir and Kári Fannar Lárusson and Courtney Price and Anders MosbechDavid R. GreenTom Nishida and Kiyoshi Itoh and Albert Caton and Darius BartlettAdam WeintritBrian Mathews and Cathal PowerJarbas Bonetti and Colin D. Woodroffe
Forewordp. vii
Prefacep. xiii
Editorsp. xvii
Contributorsp. xix
1 Geoinformatics for Applied Coastal and Marine Managementp. 1
2 Mapping the Seabedp. 17
3 A GIS-Based Application of Drainage Basin Analysis and Geomorphometry in the Submarine Environment: The Gollum Canyon System, Northeast Atlanticp. 43
4 Recent Developments in Remote Sensing for Coastal and Marine Applicationsp. 73
5 Current and Future Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Trends in Coastal and Marine Managementp. 97
6 Ontologies and Their Contribution to Marine and Coastal Geoinformatics Interoperabilityp. 129
7 Applied Marine Management with Volunteered Geographic Informationp. 149
8 Geoinformatic Applications in Marine Managementp. 175
9 Navigating a Sea of Data: Geoinformatics for Law Enforcement at Seap. 203
10 Geospatial Technologies and Indigenous Knowledge Systemsp. 225
11 Spatial Information and Ecosystem-Based Management in the Marine Arcticp. 251
12 Geospatial Technologies for Siting Coastal and Marine Renewable Infrastructuresp. 269
13 Geoinformatics for Fisheries Managementp. 297
14 Geoinformatics in Hydrography and Marine Navigationp. 323
15 The Use of Geoinformatics by the Irish Naval Service in Maritime Emergency and Security Responsep. 349
16 Spatial Analysis for Coastal Vulnerability Assessmentp. 367
Indexp. 397
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