GIS for Marine Sciences Students
Geographic information system (GIS) technology tools enable you to better understand and represent the systems at work in the seas and oceans. From the coastal shoreline to the bathymetric bottom, marine GIS has been adapted and implemented to help you achieve your goals in coastal zone management, research, ocean industries, and navigation.
GIS softwares provides tools for data storage and access, analysis, and modeling ocean features. GIS technology enables you to integrate coastline, depth, channel, obstruction, and landmark information, resulting in improvements in navigational efficiencies, commerce, and safety and ....
DESCRIPTION
This course covers fundamental concepts underlying computerized geographic information systems (GISs) at an intermediate level focused on marine scince excersizes. It combines an overview of the general principles of GIS with a theoretical treatment of the nature and analytical use of spatial information. The course has a laboratory works that exposes students to the ArcGIS 10 software packages. Ia also focuses on the fundamental nature and analytical use of spatial information in various forms (i.e., geographic information science or GIScience). Good skills with the Internet and the World Wide Web will definitely help you in this course. Guideline resources are available on the class web site for your benefit. I cover a lot of material in class using PowerPoint presentation.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course it is expected that you will be able to:Textbooks
Geographic
Information Systems and Science by Longley, Goodchild, Maguire, and
Rhind, 3rd Edition
"GIS technology is proliferating throughout the world in myriad
applications. While many technical books and writings describe these uses,
Geographic Information Systems and Science explores many of the "real-world"
applications of this rapidly evolving field. In so doing, the book illuminates
some of the growing commonalities between the concerns of business, government,
and science; how issues of management, ethics, risk, and technology intersect;
and how GIS provides a gateway to problem solving. Designed for readers who are
already familiar with GIS, this richly illustrated, full-color book is aimed at
intermediate-level undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and busy
professionals who need clear and succinct information about this fast-developing
technology." Wiley or ESRI Press, 2010/2011, 560 pp., $79.20 (paperback), ISBN:
978-0-470-72144-5. Description from ESRI GISstore. Image used by permission.
Geospatial Tools for Marine
Science, Conservation, and Management in the Pacific Northwest
edited by D.J. Wright and A.J. Scholz, Foreword by Sylvia Earle
Many students taking this course have expressed an interest in marine and
coastal applications of GIS. If you are in this category you may enjoy this
supplemental text, especially as we approach the lectures on 3-D and 4-D GIS.
Place Matters explores how marine GIS is contributing to the understanding,
management, and conservation of the shores and ocean of the Pacific Northwest,
which is becoming a hotbed of marine GIS development and applications as
scientists expand the use of this cutting-edge technology to a variety of ocean
science, policy, and management issues. With its unique focus on the use of GIS
to solve marine conservation problems, Place Matters offers an important
new resource for all who study and work to protect the world's oceans. Oregon
State University Press, 2005, 272 pp., $29.95 (list), ISBN: 0-87071-057-5.