Marine Jurisdictions Database
Abstract
The purpose of this project was to take the data gathered for the Maritime Claims chart and create a Maritime Jurisdictions digital database suitable for use with oceanographic mission planning objectives. To accomplish this a themed data set, associated tables, prototype processing software and documentation was developed. While GIS systems readily lend themselves to this task and the eventual application of the resulting data set, this product is generated as ASCII files with positions recorded in decimal degrees. This was done so as to maximize the deployment options. Users should be able to incorporate this data set into their own applications using a variety of hardware and operating systems. In this context it should also be noted this is not a deployable navigation and display application. The operating environments of the potential user community are simply too diverse. For display applications alone there are software packages such as Matlab, gmt, Surfer/MapViewer, ArcView, Atlas GIS, AutoCAD and many others, all driving a variety of CRTs, pen plotters and laser printers. To accommodate this diversity the product was made as a simple, easy to understand database that can be incorporated into a variety of applications.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA360663
Entities
People
- Roger A. Goldsmith
Organizations
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution