GIS for Coastal Zone Management - Chapter 14 potx

... The map information is now in a GIS environment, and is used in decision-making for the planning and management of the Niger Delta. 14. 3.2 Secretariat for Eastern African Coastal Area Management ... Gomes, V., pp 1 1-2 3. Coastal Area Management and Planning Network, 1989, The Status of Integrated Coastal Zone Management: A Global Assessment, Workshop on Coastal...

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... property. Residents can view post-storm erosion in the context of long-term shoreline variability. This information can also aid in evaluating past management efforts, such as the emplacement ... database serve many purposes and interests. For example, state and local government agencies use the historical rate-of-change data to manage and regulate coastal development. Developers a...

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... sensing and GIS to coastal zone management and, in particular, the development of Internet-based coastal information systems and the use of mobile communications technology and GIS for field ... institutions for use of spatial information and GIS tools for planning and monitoring purposes. Therefore, coastal GIS practitioners need to address their next efforts tow...

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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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... imagery has two resolutions, 1-meter panchromatic and 4-meter multispectral. We first obtained 4-meter multispectral geo-referenced imagery for our project. The stereo 1-meter images were still ... (RFs). The shoreline extracted from aerial orthophotos was used for back-projecting to the simulated IKONOS raw backward- and forward-looking images. The resulting shorelines on IKONOS raw...

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... generated for each of the sediment environments. These resources and constraints summaries together with the GIS form the basis of a decision-support system for assisting the formation of policy for ... C.G., Hurford, C. and Thackrah, G., 2001, Remote Sensing, GIS and the Coastal Environment in South Wales, in The Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 9 th Annual Conference GIS...

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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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... 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., 199...

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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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... dynamic modelling and GIS applications for integrated coastal zone management. Journal of Coastal Conservation, 4, pp. 19 1-2 02. © 2005 by CRC Press LLC essential, both for decision-making by field ... integrated environmental coastal zone management system, for assessing coastal zone changes and functioning, should integrate remote sensing, modelling, GIS and...

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