Centre for Marine and Coastal Zone Management

The Centre for Marine and Coastal Zone Management (CMCZM) pursues research into the following:

GIS

• The application of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) as data storage, handling, analysis and Decision Support Systems (DSS).
• The development of Human Computer Interfaces to GIS and DSS.

Remote Sensing

• The application of remote sensing (airborne and spaceborne) to monitoring of the coastal zone and marine environments
• The development of information extraction techniques from remotely sensed imagery
• The deployment of remotely sensed imagery on the Internet (Using LizardTech's MrSID and ER Mapper's Image Web Server)

GPS, Mobile, Multimedia

• The application of Information Technology (IT) to coastal zone management
• The development and application of Internet/Intranet-based GIS applications in the context of information access and dissemination (Using ArcIMS, MapServer and Manifold IMS)
• The development of Internet accessible geospatial databases
• The use of GPS and mobile GIS (PocketGIS and ArcPad) for data collection and remote information retrieval