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The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster
The 2011 Tohoku earthquake (magnitude 9.0), the largest earthquake in Japanese history, resulted in devastating tsunami damage and the partial...
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Advancing objectives-based, integrated ocean management through marine spatial planning: current and future directions on the Scotian Shelf off Nova Scotia, Canada
The national legislative and policy context for integrated ocean management in Canada is provided by the Oceans Act (1996) and the supporting policy...
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Marine Geographic Information Systems
This chapter is divided into three parts. Sections 23.1–23.5 introduce the typical fields of application of marine geographic...
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Geology and Geomorphology of Coral Reefs in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) comprise a portion of the middle of the 6,126 km long Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain, considered to be the...
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The Reef Tract of Continental Southeast Florida (Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties, USA)
Although South Florida coral reefs are frequently considered to be confined to the Florida Keys, a complex of relict early Holocene shelf-edge and...
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The steps forward of GIS in China
Researches and applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in China started in the early 1980s. In the early period, the development of GIS...
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Glossary of Glacimarine and Acoustic Terminology
By its nature, an atlas that portrays acoustic images of glacimarine features and environments must incorporate a specialized vocabulary that covers...
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Philippines
Just off the southeast coast off the Asian mainland, the Republic of Philippines is a country of extreme contrasts. The Philippines has been trying...
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Survey of Airborne Sensors
Airborne observations with dedicated instruments have their own history in contributing to advances in the Geosciences and extending our general...
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Physical Geomorphology
Geomorphology, in its widest sense, is that branch of the geosciences which concerns itself with the development of the surface features of the...
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Port Valdez
Port Valdez is a relatively deep, narrow, glaciated reentrant in the northeastern part of Prince William Sound (Fig. 7-1). This east west trending...
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