IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/marpmg/v35y2008i1p53-60.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The role of geomatics engineering in establishing the marine information system for maritime management

Author

Listed:
  • Steve Yau-Wah Lam
  • Tsz Leung Yip

Abstract

Maritime management encompasses the employment and manipulation of human resources, financial resources, technological resources and natural resources that relate to the sea, maritime navigation, shipping, port development and coastal protection. It contributes to the economic growth, price stability, transportation of cargoes and passengers, and business activities of shipping organizations. The efficient management of resources, operations and activities relies on a modern marine information system (MIS) whose information is provided by geomatics engineers and IT professionals, among others. This paper first introduces the role of the geomatics engineer as geodesist, engineering surveyor, land boundary surveyor, cartographer, hydrographer, photogrammetrist and geographic information system (GIS) engineer since all these fields are related to maritime trade, supply chains and development of ports and airports. It then describes the principal components of a web-based MIS and the important role of geomatics engineers in surveying data. This includes collecting data from electronic nautical charts (ENC) and raster nautical charts (RNC), by applying high resolution light detection and ranging (LIDAR), satellite platform sensors and GIS.

Suggested Citation

  • Steve Yau-Wah Lam & Tsz Leung Yip, 2008. "The role of geomatics engineering in establishing the marine information system for maritime management," Maritime Policy & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(1), pages 53-60, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:marpmg:v:35:y:2008:i:1:p:53-60
    DOI: 10.1080/03088830701848896
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/03088830701848896
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/03088830701848896?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ralf Elbert & Holger Pontow & Alexander Benlian, 2017. "The role of inter-organizational information systems in maritime transport chains," Electronic Markets, Springer;IIM University of St. Gallen, vol. 27(2), pages 157-173, May.
    2. Calwin S. Parthibaraj & PL.K. Palaniappan & Angappa Gunasekaran & Nachiappan Subramanian, 2017. "Multi-agent system with iterative auction mechanism for master bay plan problem in marine logistics," Maritime Policy & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 44(6), pages 705-726, August.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:marpmg:v:35:y:2008:i:1:p:53-60. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/TMPM20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.