Habitatmodeler - Gis-Based Tools For Marine Habitat Delineation And Marine Spatial Planning

摘要

Societal impacts consider the possible effects ofclimate change on human societies. While these arecritical impacts, non-human organisms are also affectedby climate change. This paper will describe tools wehave created to delineate oceanic habitats – especiallypelagic habitats – in support of ecosystem-basedmanagement and marine spatial planning. These toolscan be used to explore the impacts of climate change onmarine organisms and ecosystems.HabitatSpace provides both analysis andvisualization in a GIS-based tool that uses UCAR’sIntegrated Data Viewer (IDV) for volumetricvisualizations and ESRI’s ArcGIS for spatial analyses.While visualization tools provide appealing pictures ofcomplicated data, they can also be coupled withgeographic information systems to provide advancedanalyses. This presentation will focus on recentdevelopments in interoperability, such as the directingestion of netCDF data in ArcGIS and the use of Javatools for data analysis, and how these developmentsenhance our ability to represent multidimensional datain GIS. The analysis of both in situ and model data isdiscussed.New tools for the representation ofmultidimensional data allow user to visualize andinteract with datasets such as three-dimensional outputfrom particle tracking models. These tools can also beused to analyze conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD)data, which is the oceanographic analog to atmosphericsounding data. Examples from projects for the NationalMarine Fisheries Service will be shown.