Building a seamless SDI model for land and marine environments

© 2010 Dr. Sheelan Sheikheslami VaezWith climate change, rising sea levels pressing harder year on year and the need to manage our resources more carefully in this dynamic environment, the inability to integrate marine and land based spatial information is an increasing problem in many countries. Without spatial data, sustainable development of the coastal zone is difficult, if not impossible. The absence of a seamless spatial information framework prevents the execution of standard practice of locating and referencing spatial information across the land – marine interface where so much pressure and development is taking place. This also inhibits the access and sharing of spatial information leading to data duplication often resulting in a proliferation of discrete data collection projects with the consequences of substantial investments