Interactive visualization of marine pollution monitoring and forecasting data via a Web-based GIS

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1069-1080

  Kulawiak, M ^a   Prospathopoulos, A ^b   Perivoliotis, L ^b   Luba M ^a   Kioroglou, S ^b   Stepnowski, A ^a  

^a GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Environmental management; GeoServer; Oil spill prediction; Open Source; Operational system; Web GIS

Indexed keywords

ADDED VALUES; AEGEAN SEA; ARC INTERNET MAP SERVERS; CLIENT LIBRARIES; CUSTOMIZABLE; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; END USERS; ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION; FORECASTING SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC DATA; GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION; GRAPHICAL INTERFACE; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; OPEN SOURCES; OPERATIONAL SYSTEM; OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS; SIMULATION RESULT; TERRAIN ELEVATION; WEB-BASED GIS; WEB-GIS;

ANIMATION; AUTHENTICATION; DATA VISUALIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FORECASTING; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPILLS; MARINE POLLUTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; OIL SPILLS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VISUALIZATION;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FORECASTING METHOD; GIS; MARINE POLLUTION; OIL SPILL; POLLUTION MONITORING; VISUALIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AEGEAN SEA; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 77955088235     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2010.02.008     Document Type: Article

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