GIS for coastal zone management

✍ Scribed by Darius J. Bartlett, Jennifer L. Smith

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 349
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Increasingly used to analyze and manage marine and coastal zones, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) provide a powerful set of tools for integrating and processing spatial information. These technologies are increasingly used in the management and analysis of the coastal zone. Supplying the guidance necessary to use these tools, GIS for Coastal Zone Management explores key technical, theoretical, and applications issues. Drawing on the practical experience of experts in the field, the book discusses recent developments and specific applications.A comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date overview of the state-of-the-art in coastal zone GIS applications, this down-to-earth and practical book puts the science in a management context. The chapters present groundbreaking coastal applications of GIS based decision support tools, spatial data infrastructures, remote sensing technology including LiDAR and CASI, and more. Covering a broad range of topics by international experts, the logical organization supplies a flow and structure to the entire book that makes the information not only easily accessible but immediately applicable.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 10
Preface......Page 14
Contributors......Page 16
CHAPTER ONE: Coastal Spatial Data Infrastructure......Page 32
CHAPTER TWO: Bridging the Land-Sea Divide Through Digital Technologies......Page 48
CHAPTER THREE: A Comparative Study of Shoreline Mapping Techniques......Page 58
CHAPTER FOUR: Monitoring Coastal Environments Using Remote Sensing and GIS......Page 66
CHAPTER FIVE: Spatial Uncertainty in Marine and Coastal GIS......Page 82
CHAPTER SIX: New Directions for Coastal and Marine Monitoring: Web Mapping and Mobile Application Technologies......Page 94
CHAPTER SEVEN: Exploring the Optimum Spatial Resolution for Satellite Imagery: A Coastal Area Case Study......Page 108
CHAPTER EIGHT: Visualisation for Coastal Zone Management......Page 126
CHAPTER NINE: Application of a Decision Support System in the Development of a Hydrodynamic Model for a Coastal Area......Page 140
CHAPTER TEN: Decision-Making in the Coastal Zone Using Hydrodynamic Modelling with a GIS Interface......Page 156
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Towards an Institutional GIS for the Iroise Sea (France)......Page 172
CHAPTER TWELVE: Cultural Intermixing, the Diffusion of GIS and its Application to Coastal Management in Developing Countries......Page 184
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Use of GIS to Enhance Communications of Cultural and Natural Resources and Contamination......Page 196
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: GIS Applications In Coastal Management: A View from the Developing World......Page 212
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: High-Resolution Elevation and Image Data Within the Bay of Fundy Coastal Zone, Nova Scotia, Canada......Page 226
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Mapping and Analysing Historical Shoreline Changes Using GIS......Page 250
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: GIS for Assessing Land-Based Activities that Pollute Coastal Environments......Page 260
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Applying the Geospatial Technologies to Estuary Environments......Page 270
CHAPTER NINETEEN: A Territorial Information System (TIS) for the Management of the Seine Estuary – Environmental and Management Applications......Page 288
CHAPTER TWENTY: Developing an Environmental Oil Spill Sensitivity Atlas for the West Greenland Coastal Zone......Page 300
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Environment Canada’s Atlantic Sensitivity Mapping Program......Page 312
Epilogue: Meeting the Needs of Integrated Coastal Zone Management......Page 326
Index......Page 332