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Small-Government GIS
Geographic information systems, or GISs, have shown great potential for use as a tool by public engineers working on the state and municipal level, but the time and money required to put...

Getting to the Nonpoint Source with GIS
Like most densely populated areas in the U.S., the Galveston Bay in Texas suffers from non-point-source pollution. Engineers working under guidelines of the Galveston Bay National Estuary...

Metric Design: It's Real
Metric construction is coming out of the ground in the U.S. as well as in the rest of the world. It's no longer something to be considered someday, somewhere. Metric�the Systeme...

Petroleum Imports and Coastal Zone Management
With its growing net petroleum import position, the U.S. must accept continued dependence on tankers plying its coastal areas. Tankers also carry product exports, of course, a critical...

GIS and Fisheries Management
Geographic Information System (GIS) technologies may provide the tool needed to translate and synthesize geographically oriented marine resources information in Florida. Issues facing...

Use of Geographic Information Processing for the Identification of Indirect Impacts Associated with Regulatory Permitting Programs: For Now, a Conceptual Model
The utilization of Geographic Information Processing (GIP) for the identification and assessment of direct impacts to coastal ecosystems allowed under the guidelines of regulatory permitting...

A Multifunctional Decision Support GIS for Coastal Management
This article describes the theoretical design and an initial prototype development of a multifunctional spatial decision-support system for coastal resource and environmental management....

Fisheries Management Integrated System for a Sustainable Development Policy
Aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems great diversity are affected by many types of environmental impacts, originated by old economic development concepts. It is necessary a integrated multidisciplinary...

A Workstation for the Extraction of Coastline from Digital Imagery
The delineation of coastline has primarily been a manual tracing exercise from various forms of imagery. In this paper, a process to extract shoreline automatically from digital imagery...

Remote Sensed Information System in Marine Management
Today computer and GIS are being used to join marine resources and environmental management, and remote sensed data is becoming more and more important data sources of GIS. Along with...

GIS and Laboratory Study Contaminants in Wetlands
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) provide excellent visualization and analyses of where pollution sources are located relative to existing wetland resources and areas of significant...

Modern Air Pollution Reduction Technology on Platforms in the Pacific OCS
The Pacific Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) along the California coast line has the most sophisticated air pollution reduction technologies implemented in the world. This paper describes...

Responsible Governmental Structures: Coastal Management in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia
Commentators studying the coastal management strategies adopted by various countries have frequently criticized the lack of centralized national authorities aimed specifically at coastal...

Integration of Remote Sensing, GIS, and GPS Techniques for Monitoring Non-hazardous Oilfield Waste (NOW) Pits in Coastal Louisiana
Non-hazardous Oilfield Waste (NOW) pits exist throughout Louisiana's coastal zone. Though labeled 'non-hazardous,' NOW pits are potentially dangerous to human and environmental interests...

The Use of Geographic Information System Technology to Compare the Environmental Impacts of Human Development on Mobile Bay, Alabama, and Galveston Bay, Texas
Geographic information systems (GIS) can synthesize information rapidly and efficiently from many different sources. GIS-generated maps, which integrate multiple information layers, can...

The Development of a Geographic Information System for the Management of Mississippi's Coastal Wetlands
The Mississippi Automated Resource Information System's (MARIS) Technical Center (MTC) and the Mississippi Bureau of Marine Resources (BMR) are engaged in a joint project to improve the...

Using GIS to Monitor Wetlands Loss/Gain
This paper represents the work being done at the National Wetlands Research Center (NWRC) for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE) to monitor wetland change in the Mississippi River...

Using GIS and Image Processing Technology to Assist Wetland Planning, Protection, and Restoration in Coastal Louisiana
Coastal Louisiana has experienced severe wetland loss over the past 30 years. The Coastal Wetland Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) of 1990 was created to address the...

Guidelines for Digital Environmental Sensitivity Index Maps
New national and international requirements for oil spill planning and response capabilities include identification and mapping of fish and wildlife resources and oil-sensitive habitats....

Five Year Program to Evaluate Sand, Mineral and Hard Bottom Resources of the Continental Shelf off South Carolina
In July of 1992, the State of South Carolina entered into a cooperative arrangement with the Minerals Management Service (MMS) to establish a technical working group to identify and evaluate...

 

 

 

 

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