@mastersthesis {5029, title = {A Geo-database for Potentially Polluting Marine Sites and Associated Risk Index}, volume = {Ocean Engineering/Ocean Mapping}, year = {2012}, month = {12/2012}, pages = {284}, school = {University of New Hampshire}, address = {Durham, NH}, abstract = {

The increasing availability of geospatial marine data provides an opportunity for hydrographic offices to contribute to the identification of \“Potentially Polluting Marine Sites\” (PPMS).

To adequately manage these sites, a PPMS Geospatial Database (GeoDB) application was developed to collect and store relevant information suitable for site inventory and geo-spatial analysis. The benefits of structuring the data to conform to the Universal Hydrographic Data Model (IHO S-100) and to use the Geographic Mark-Up Language (GML) for encoding are presented. A storage solution is proposed using a GML-enabled spatial relational database management system (RDBMS). In addition, an example of a risk index methodology is provided based on the defined data structure. The implementation of this example was performed using scripts containing SQL statements.

These procedures were implemented using a cross-platform C++ application based on open-source libraries and called PPMS GeoDB Manager.

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}, keywords = {GML Application, IHO S-100 Data Model, PPMS, Quality Symbol, Risk Index, Shipwrecks}, author = {Giuseppe Masetti} }