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Marine Geographic Information Systems

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This chapter is divided into three parts. Sections 23.1–23.5 introduce the typical fields of application of marine geographic information systems. It begins with the application and the conflicts of using the sea for, e.g., energy production and transport, versus environmental protection. Furthermore, the methodology of GIS-based analyses in the marine context and the special conditions of research and work in this field are considered, including aspects of data, data acquisition, data modeling, data banking, standardization, and harmonization. Then, this part continues with specific applications such as the maritime spatial planning process and integrated coastal zone management (ICZM), plus examples in the field of emergency response to pollution. One power user of marine GIS techniques is commercial shipping. Sections 23.6–23.9 describe the nautical and hydrographic aspects of the topic. The subject of Sect. 23.10 is the conjunction between geostatistics and geographical information systems in the GIS-based ecoregionalization of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea to constitute a new information layer with the help of spatial interpolation as the basis for a maritime spatial planning process.

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Abbreviations

AIS:

Automatic Identification System

ARPA:

Automatic Radar Plotting Aids

AUV:

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

AWI:

Alfred-Wegener-Institute

ArcIMS:

ArcGIS Internet Map Server

BSH:

Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie, Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency

CART:

Classification and Regression Tree

CHAID:

Chisquare Interaction Detection Method

CTD:

conductivity, temperature, and density

DBMS:

database management system

DGPS:

Differential Global Positioning System

DSV:

Deep Submergence Vehicle

EBL:

Electronic Bearing Line

ECDIS:

Electronic Chart Display and Information System

EDMED:

European Directory of Marine Environmental Datasets

EEZ:

Exclusive Economic Zone

EMODNET:

European Marine Observation and Data Network

EMSA:

European Maritime Safety Agency

ENC:

Electronic Navigational Chart

ENVISAT:

Environmental Satellite

ER:

Engineering Report

ER:

entity relationship

EROCIPS:

Emergency Response to coastal Oil, Chemical and Inert Pollution from shipping

EUNIS:

European Nature Information System

Esri:

Environmental Systems Research Institute

FFH:

Fauna Flora Habitat

FGDC:

US Federal Geographic Data Committee

GIS:

Geographic Information System

GPS:

Global Positioning System

GSM:

Global System for Mobile communication

HDOP:

horizontal dilution of precision

HMI:

human–machine interface

ICES:

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

ICZM:

Integrated Coastal Zone Management

IHO:

International Hydrographic Organization

IMO:

International Maritime Organization

IMS:

Internet Map Server

INS:

Integrated Navigation System

INSPIRE:

Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community

ISO:

International Organization for Standardization

IfM:

Institute of Marine Research

LIDAR:

light detection and ranging, Laser Scanning

MDM:

Marine Data Model

ME:

mean error

MPE:

median percentile error

MS:

multispectral

MSC:

Maritime Safety Committee

MSDI:

Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure

MSP:

Maritime Spatial Planning

MSSQL:

Microsoft SQL

MUDAB:

Marine Environmental Data Base

NATO:

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NGO:

non-governmental organization

NM:

nautical miles

NOAA:

US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

PC:

Personal Computer

PIANC:

Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses

QDA:

Quadratic Discriminant Analysis

QUEST:

Quick, Unbiased, Efficient, Statistical Tree

RENC:

Regional Electronic Chart Coordinating Centre

ROV:

Remotely Operated Vehicle

SOTDMA:

Self-Organizing Time Division Multiple Access

SQL:

Structured Query Language

TIN:

Triangulated Irregular Network

TSS:

Traffic separation scheme

UBA:

Umweltbundesamt (German Federal Environmental Agency)

UN:

United Nations

URL:

Uniform Resource Locator

USACE:

US Army Corps of Engineers

UTM:

Universal Transversal Mercator

VHF:

Very-high-frequency

VPS:

Vorsorgeplanungssystem

VRM:

Variable Range Marker

WEND:

World-wide Electronic Navigational Chart Data Base

WFD:

Water Framework Directive

WMO:

World Meteorological Organization

WOCE:

World Ocean Circulation Experiment

XML:

Extensible Markup Language

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