GIS for Coastal Zone Management - Chapter 4 ppt

... Figure 4. 4 The Large rock-fall of winter 200 0-0 1. The cliffs are comprised of Blue Lias rocks and are about 65 metres high. In the foreground is part of a wave-cut platform in the same formation ... better informed and evidence-based decisions on the future sustainable use of our coastal heritage for many generations to come. 4. 5 EPILOGUE A dissemination seminar for the “Gla...

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... (m) RMS (pixel) RMS (m) Shoreline from 4- m IKONOS images 6652 4. 02 10. 04 16 40 .0 4. 91 12.27 Digital shoreline 45 90 2. 34 5. 84 9 22.5 2. 74 6. 84 The accuracies of the shorelines derived from the 4- meter IKONOS images ... imagery has two resolutions, 1-meter panchromatic and 4- meter multispectral. We first obtained 4- meter multispectral geo-referenced imagery f...

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... information technologies for coastal research and management - a review. Journal of Coastal Research, 12 (1), pp. 19 2-2 04. O'Riordan T. and Ward, R., 1997, Building trust in shoreline management: ... case study for the North Norfolk coast. In Coastal Management: Putting Policy into Practice, edited by Fleming. (Thomas Telford), pp. 31 8-3 30. Bartlett, D., 19...

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... West. 12 .4 THE APPLICATION OF GIS TO COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT One of the primary reasons for wishing to model coastal space in a GIS framework is so that the technology may be used for enhanced ... LLC regard, drawing by way of example on the use of GIS for coastal zone management in the Indian sub-continent. 12.2 GIS DIFFUSION TO THE NON-“WESTERN” WORLD The pr...

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... A Global Offshore Hazardous Materials Sites GIS (GOHMS -GIS) . In Proceedings of Coastal Zone ‘99 Conference , San Diego, California, pp. 39 2-3 94. Martin, F., 1960, Sea Bears: The Story of ... egg- gathering season on Walrus Island was June-July (Elliott 1875). Historical egg gathering locations are included in the GIS project. The Pribilof Islands are treeless, except for...

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... referenced information systems, (Prélaz-Droux, 1995), this territorial information system sits mid-way between the two end-points of land information system and geographical information system ... d’information géographique, (Paris: Hermès). © 2005 by CRC Press LLC CHAPTER NINETEEN A Territorial Information System (TIS) for the Management of the Seine Estuary – Environmental and...

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... Frederiksborgvej 399, P.O. Box 358, DK -4 0 00 Roskilde, Denmark. Phone: +45 46 30 19 34; Fax: +45 46 30 19 14; e-mail: amo@dmu.dk Anders Mosbech, Ph.D., is a senior scientist who performs ecological research ... Frederiksborgvej 399, P.O. Box 358, DK -4 0 00 Roskilde, Denmark. Phone: +45 46 30 19 34; Fax: +45 46 30 19 14; e-mail: dmb@dmu.dk David Boertman is a senior research biologi...

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... integration at the coastal zone. In Proceedings of the GIS Research UK, 11 th Annual Conference 2003. Gomm, S., 2001, Integrated mapping of the marine and coastal zone. In Proceedings of the GIS Research ... by CRC Press LLC CHAPTER TWO Bridging the Land-Sea Divide Through Digital Technologies Simon Gomm 2.1 INTRODUCTION There are many different types of users of coastal...

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... informed decisions have to be made using real-time information there is a need for architecture that quickly disseminates information affecting coastal and marine resources. Accurate, up-to-date, ... The web therefore makes it easy to provide the most up to date spatial data (Fitzgerald, 2000). © 2005 by CRC Press LLC Computer Mapping and GIS for Coastal Zone Management: Coas...

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... iterative process of validation and calibration. 10.3 GIS FOR COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computer-based information system used to digitally represent and ... 1998). A GIS can be distinguished from database management systems or from visualisation packages through its specialised capability for spatial analysis. The use of GIS fo...

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