Geoinformatics for Management and Monitoring of Marine Environment

Authors

  • Pramitha Vasantha Subramoniam Department of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram-695581
  • Sreejith Parameswara Panicker Department of Zoology, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram-695581

Keywords:

GIS technology, Marine management, Aquatic monitoring systems, Geo-databases, Sensing, Data communication, Data storage, Data mining

Abstract

Increased demand for marine goods and services results in flooding of spatial and environmental data in the marine industries sector worldwide. The application of planning and management concepts and instruments to the marine sector is still relatively new and the use of geoinformatics (GIS) to support these endeavours is presently in its infancy level. In recognition of the numerous challenges for management faced by the marine sector, more environment-oriented ethos of holistic, transdisciplinary integrative principles needs to be addressed. This paper points out the possibilities of geoinformatics and especially GIS in various aspects that can be tapped for marine management including coastal and ocean scale applications, industrial expansion, achieving conservation objectives, and implementing methods like ecosystem-based management (EBM). The paper gives an overview of the application of GIS, its technology and approaches, for monitoring data, and its use for analyzing, modeling, and decision-making in marine management.

Author Biographies

  • Pramitha Vasantha Subramoniam, Department of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram-695581
    Pramitha Vasantha Subramoniam is a faculty member in the Department of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, University of Kerala. She is a marine biotechnologist with academic excellence. She did her MSc in Marine Biotechnology and M.Phil in Aquatic Biology and Fisheries from University of Kerala and PhD from CMFRI, India.  She has qualified the National Eligibility Test from ICAR, Govt of India  and worked as Senior Research Fellow in CMFRI under ICAR Ad-hoc Project. Her research areas include marine drug isolation, regenerative medicine, proteomic profiling, bioprospecting etc. She has twelve years of teaching experience, numerous paper presentations, publication of articles in international journals and popular magazines,  book chapters, talks on All India Radio etc to her credit.  Along with a team of researchers is presently in the pursuit of developing marine collagen-based Nutra-cosmeceuticals and other bioactive products at her collaborative startup venture “Posei-Derma”.
  • Sreejith Parameswara Panicker, Department of Zoology, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram-695581

    Sreejith Parameswara Panicker is Assistant Professor at the Department of Zoology, University of Kerala. After his PhD from University of Kerala, he did Post-Doctoral Fellowships at the Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, USA, and at Dermatology Department, Case Western Reserve University, USA on Primary Cicatricial Alopecia. He has also completed short-term fellowship from University of Illinois, College of Medicine at Peoria, Chicago. He was FLAIR International Fellow and attended an internship at University of Roehampton, London.  Has received numerous research grants from UGC, KSCSTE and University of Kerala. He is well trained in SEM, TEM, Two photon Microscopy and Confocal Microscopy. His research areas include Cutaneous, Cancer and Ayurveda Biology.


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2022-09-27

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