A study on the dimensional aspect of the marine geographic information systems

Author

Shyue, Shiahn-Wern ; Tsai, Pei-yuan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Marine Environ., Nat. Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

23-26 Sep 1996

Firstpage

674

Abstract

Marine problems have the characteristics of the fuzzy boundary, dynamics, and a full three dimensions. It is not completely suitable for the land based geographic information systems (GIS) to apply fully in the marine environment. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the functional demands of two and three dimensional Marine GIS (MGIS) under various marine applications, and to point out the crux in MGIS when coping with marine problems. This article investigated the current applications of MGIS by reviewing the related references, and discussed the features of marine data. The published three dimensional GIS (3D GIS) data models were also summarized. The three dimensional distribution of the aquatic temperature around coastal water of southern Taiwan was demonstrated by using Intergraph MGE Voxel Analyst (MGVA) software to understand better about the necessary utilization of the 3D MGIS

Keywords

geographic information systems; oceanographic techniques; MGIS; coastal; dimensional aspect; fuzzy boundary; marine geographic information system; ocean; sea coast; temperature; three dimensional GIS; three dimensions; Application software; Data models; Data structures; Geographic Information Systems; Navigation; Ocean temperature; Sea measurements; Temperature distribution; Terminology; Tides;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS '96. MTS/IEEE. Prospects for the 21st Century. Conference Proceedings

Conference_Location

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3519-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.1996.568308

Filename

568308