Volume : III, Issue : I, January - 2014

GIS Application in Oceanography

Prof. S. P. Mehta

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The GIS application is not limited to terrestrial boundary., but it has expanded its tools and methodology in oceanography too. It’s wide utility in ocean protection, preservation and management is truly recognized. Ocean GIS or Marine GIS has developed from application that merely collect and display data to complex simulation, modeling, and development of new coastal methodology. Numerous innovations in remotely sensed data (both satellite and acoustic) hydrographic models, and other emerging data collecting techniques have been added to information data structures. The commercial GIS sector has also continued to take interest in marine GIS and its development and its application However there are challenges ahead underpinning the success of many of these applications. But it does provide an opportunity for further study, posing important questions about representation of spatial and temporal information in the marine environment. The commercialization of GIS has long standing beneficial effect for users who did not need advance training in computer programming. But from information technology perspective it may have detrimental effects of limiting research into underlying data structures and algorithms. Most papers in GIS conference deal with research using GIS While fewer deal with research on information system itself, data structures, spatial analysis and algorithms, and innovative approach to data models and analysis for use in scientific hypothesis , prediction, and decision making. The Geographic Information Science (GIS ) has indeed answer to some of these questions.

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Prof. S. P. Mehta GIS Application in Oceanography International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol.III, Issue.I January 2014

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