INVENTORY INTO A DIGITAL LIBRARY OF THE COMPLETED STUDIES TO ASSES THE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE GULF OF GUAYAQUIL BASED ON THE PERFORMING INFORMATION UTILIZING ELECTRONIC CHARTING AND DISPLAY SYSTEMS A |
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| Zobeida Cisneros, Ivan Apolo, Teresa Vera, Leo Van Biesen, Tesfa Ghebreegziabeber, Ma. del Pilar Cornejo, Francisco Torres |
- Abstract:
- The university institution plays an important role as generator and bank of information through research (starting with thesis works), human and technological resources, while keeping up-to-date with the demands of the community on the formation of professionals. It is the commitment of the authors and the whole of the research team to elaborate, with all the means available at the academic institutions they belong to, this Geographic Information System to accomplish the goal of providing the stakeholders in the Gulf of Guayaquil (GG), Ecuador, objective means for decision-making. The methodology applied to build up digital thematic information useful for management of the ecosystem of the Gulf of Guayaquil consists of:
1. Set-up an Electronic Charting and Display System - ECDIS with the database inventory and the digital cartography available;
2. Select out of the databank that information that is competent and constitute with it a geographic database suitable for the identification of regions in the gulf;
3. Work out spatial relationships with the output of that selection to characterize the gulf in terms of spatial and temporal driving factors;
4. Produce presentation maps synthesizing the results of the analysis. Several of the maps realised are discussed, which show the analysis performed on the variables that describe natural and man-driven activities in the GG. For instance, at the base of an Internet-accessible alert system lies information on production and management of shrimp farms in the region, summarised in an index that is used to map the variation between the monthly performance and the historical one. A second example shows rather a lesser abstraction of the information, and shows layers describing the natural set-up regarding the hydro-dynamics of the inner estuary, which would be a second building block toward the integrated vision on how to manage the ecosystem in view of the economic interests, and also the sustainability ones. - Keywords:
- Temporal and spatial ecosystem, Gulf of Guayaquil, Geographic Information System
- Download:
- PWC-2003-TC7-021.pdf
- DOI:
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- Event details
- Event name:
- XVII IMEKO World Congress
- Title:
Metrology in the 3rd Millennium
- Place:
- Dubrovnik, CROATIA
- Time:
- 22 June 2003 - 28 June 2003