Marine Regions: Towards a Global Standard for Georeferenced Marine Names and Boundaries

Marine Geodesy

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 99-125

  Claus, Simon ^a   De Hauwere, Nathalie ^a   Vanhoorne, Bart ^a   Deckers, Pieter ^b   Souza Dias, Francisco ^a   Hernandez, Francisco ^a   Mees, Jan ^a  

^a FLANDERS MARINE INSTITUTE VLIZ   (Belgium)

^b FLANDERS HYDRAULICS RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

GIS; Marine gazetteer; maritime boundaries; standards

Indexed keywords

BAY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DATA MANAGEMENT; GIS; INTERNET; MARITIME BOUNDARY; OCEAN BASIN; PLACE NAME; SANDBANK; SEAMOUNT; SPATIAL DATA; STANDARD (REGULATION);

EID: 84901599630     PISSN: 01490419     EISSN: 1521060X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490419.2014.902881     Document Type: Article

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