Geographic Information Systems in Oceanography and Fisheries

by Vasilis D. Valavanis

Overview

Over the last two decades there has been increasing recognition that problems in oceanography and fisheries sciences and related marine areas are nearly all manifest in the spatio-temporal domain. Geographical Information Systems (GIS), the natural framework for spatial data handling, are being recognized as powerful tools with useful applications

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134452866
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	05/23/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	209
File size:	16 MB
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About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

This book examines geographic information systems (GIS) applications in oceanography and fisheries sciences, encompassing methods in coastal, continental shelf, and deep ocean studies. Conceptual issues on marine spatial thinking and models of marine GIS development are overviewed, and main sampling methods and online sources of spatially referenced data are examined. Application examples and innovative approaches in GIS developments for oceanographic and fisheries tasks are discussed, and GIS technical issues are explored through a description of marine GIS routines for various GIS tasks. Valavanis is a researcher at the Institute of Marine Biology of Crete, Greece. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR