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Marine and Coastal
Geographical Information Systems
© 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 0-7484-0862-2
Paperback ISBN: 0-7484-0870-3
"This landmark text should be an integral part of any academic curriculum encompassing marine and coastal sciences and should be on the bookshelf of any geographic information or marine scientist."
-- InReview, Geospatial Solutions, September 2000 issue
Edited by Dawn Wright (Oregon State University, USA)
and Darius Bartlett (University College Cork, IRELAND)
Foreword by Mike Goodchild
Part of the Taylor & Francis Research Monographs in Geographical Information Systems series, edited by
Peter Fisher, Department of Geography, Leicester University, and
Jonathan Raper,
Department of Information Science, City University, London (formerly at the Department of Geography, Birbeck College, University of London).
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Table of Contents
Errata from first printing (© 1999)
Errata from second printing (© 2000)
Review of Book in Geospatial Solutions, 2000 (1.2 Mb pdf file)
Review in The Professional Geographer, 54(2):291-293, 2002, page 1 | page 2
Overview
As marine and coastal applications of GIS are finally gaining
wide acceptance in scientific as well GIS communities, our hope
is that this book will be a timely compilation of ongoing GIS
research and innovation in deepsea geology, chemistry,
and biology, and coastal geology, biology, engineering, and resource
management. The book should inspire and stimulate continued research in
this important new application domain of GIS. This is an exciting time,
as there is finally a "critical mass" of leading scholars in
marine and coastal GIS who can make rigorous contributions to a volume
such as this. Marine and Coastal Geographical Information Systems is
NOT meant to be an introductory text in either marine science or GIS.
Rather, it focuses on the potential and progress of GIS research
in the marine and coastal realm. Contributed chapters are based
not only on theoretical constructs for this application domain, but on
empirical results as well.
Features
- First book of its kind to illustrate the broad usage of GIS, image processing, and computer
modeling in deepsea and coastal environments
- Discussion of techniques for analyzing deepsea geological, chemical and
biological data for improved interpretation
- Addressing problems of coastal resource inventory, planning, and
management
- Presentations of GIS techniques in the context of current problems and
practitioner's solutions
- Comments on the reliability of data retrieved by various
mapping/sampling vehicles and instruments
- Suggestions for data sets to be used in various process studies.
Cautionary guidelines for avoiding common mistakes related to
using GIS with marine and coastal data
Selected Topics
- Discussion of marine and coastal research in the context of GIS, noting
the previously limited use of GIS in these arenas, why this has been
so (e.g., difficulties in working in 3- and 4-D), and how this is now
being addressed
- New developments in data models and data structures for marine
and coastal GIS
- Importance of metadata, data exchange and archive standards for
marine and coastal GIS
- Innovative techniques for marine data conversion, display,
modeling in GIS
- Questions in basic & applied science that have been derived, addressed
and/or elucidated by GIS
- Descriptions of any long-term GIS marine and/or coastal studies
- Temporal issues
- GPS integration and real-time processing systems
- Processing and interpretation of data from multiple instruments/vehicles
- Marine and coastal modeling and visualization (particularly 3- and 4-D)
- Integration of spatial analysis with policy, legal and/or
economic issues, particularly in the coastal zone
- Progress in the attention of commercial GIS vendors to the
challenges posed by marine and coastal applications of GIS
Primary and Secondary Readership
Its completeness and relevance makes Marine and Coastal Geographical
Information Systems an important book for anyone interested
in the ocean environment while wishing to be exposed to GIS research
methodology. However, we expect the primary audience to be comprised
of oceanographers, marine and coastal geographers, coastal resource
managers and consultants, marine technologists, government researchers,
and graduate students.
These individuals may belong to societies such as the Association
of American Geographers (particularly the Coastal/Marine Geography and
GIS specialty groups), the Canadian Association of Geographers,
the American Geophysical Union, the Oceanography Society, the
International Geographical Union, the American Geophysical Union,
and the Association for Geographic Information.
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