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Number 8 (2012)

Potentially Polluting Marine Sites GEODB: An S-100 Geospatial Database as an Effective Contribution to the Protection of the Marine Environment

Submitted
September 3, 2013
Published
2012-11-30

Abstract

Potentially Polluting Marine Sites (PPMS) are objects on, or areas of, the seabed that may release pollution in the future. A rationale for, and design of, a geospatial database to inventory and manipu-late PPMS is presented. Built as an S-100 Product Specification, it is specified through human-readable UML diagrams and implemented through machine-readable GML files, and includes auxiliary information such as pollution-control resources and potentially vulnerable sites in order to support analyses of the core data. The design and some aspects of implementation are presented, along with metadata requirements and structure, and a perspective on potential uses of the database.