Assessing ship movements using volunteered geographic information
- Degree Grantor:
- University of California, Santa Barbara. Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
- Degree Supervisor:
- Steven D. Gaines
- Place of Publication:
- [Santa Barbara, Calif.]
- Publisher:
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Creation Date:
- 2013
- Issued Date:
- 2013
- Topics:
- Engineering, Naval, Transportation, and Geodesy
- Keywords:
- Shipping,
Automatic identification system,
Global,
Transportation,
Volunteered geographic information, and
Marine spatial planning - Genres:
- Online resources and Dissertations, Academic
- Dissertation:
- M.A.--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2013
- Description:
Shipping, the ocean transportation of people and goods, moves most world trade, and understanding its effects is required to assess human use of the oceans. This work examines the shipping trade by combining global observations of ship location with vessel identification records, and interpreting the results in an ecological context. By incorporating quality checking methods with volunteered geographic information, I provide a spatially resolved high resolution dataset which links individual ships with their movement patterns and vessel attributes. This contributes knowledge on the state and distribution of shipping, and identifies areas where mitigation of impacts are achievable.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (82 pages)
- Format:
- Text
- Collection(s):
- UCSB electronic theses and dissertations
- Other Versions:
- http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqm&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1536569
- ARK:
- ark:/48907/f3bz640g
- ISBN:
- 9781303053009
- Catalog System Number:
- 990039788460203776
- Copyright:
- Shaun Walbridge, 2012
- Rights:
- In Copyright
- Copyright Holder:
- Shaun Walbridge
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