75626 - Planning and Management of Coastal Development

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Docente: Federica Foglini
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: BIO/07
  • Language: Italian
  • Moduli: Federica Foglini (Modulo 1) Attilio Rinaldi (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Marine Biology (cod. 8857)

Learning outcomes

The students will learn the habitat mapping concept and tools for the management of the marine environment to assess the good environmental status and to monitor the high conservation value habitats. The studentd will acquire expertise to map the biotic and abiotic component of the coastal and marine environment and the basic GIS and GIScience knowledge to manage, integrate, query and anlyze multidisciplinary data (biologic, geologic, ocenogaphic data). The student will be able to use GIS tools and to produce different kind of habitat maps both on coastal and marine environment and anthropic pressures and threats. The students will acquire knowledge about the coastal integrated zone management (ICZM) as a multidisciplinary tools extremely relevant within the actual blue growth initiative https://ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/policy/blue_growth_en . The student will acquire the expertise about the recent EU regulation and initiatives such as the Marine Strategy Framework directive and the measures to apply in order to mitigate the anthropic impact.

Course contents

Theory 1.1

  • Introduction to GIS: What is GIS?What GIS matter? Concept about GIS Science , GIS Study and GIS tool
  • GIS and Habitat mapping – General concept. Why GIS for Habitat mapping?

Theory 1.2

  • GIS data type: Vector and Raster
  • Topology basic concept
  • Raster analysis basic concept

Theory 1.3 Data input, verification and output

  • Source of geographical data in the marine environment
  • How to create spatial data
  • Data quality
  • Theory 1.4 Manipulating and display parameters
  • Symbolising Features and Rasters
  • Classifying Features and Rasters

Theory 1.5 Querying and retrieve Data

  • Identifying, Selecting and finding features
  • Selecting features by attribute
  • Select feature by location
  • Joining and relating data

Section 2. Georeferencing, Datum and Map projection in ArcGIS

Theory 2.1 What is Georeferincing

  • The Geographic Coordinate System
  • Map Projections - Main Types of Projection and practical use
  • Example from the marine environment

Section 3 Creating continuous surface from point data

Theory 3.1. Interpolation basic concept and use

  • Interpolation: what is it and why it is necessary
  • Data source for interpolation
  • Method for interpolation
  • Examples from the marine environment
  • Section 4. Introduction to Geodatabase

Theory 4.1

  • What is a Data Model?
  • What is Geodatabase? Which are the Geodatabase elements

Theory 4.2

  • An overview of Geodatabase design and architecture;
  • Designing the conceptual data model
  • Design the logical data model
  • Create the physical data model
  • Implement the Geodatabase

Teaching methods

This course includes both theoretical and practical parts. The practical part will be done in the computer laboratory using marine spatial data to learn practical methods to manage GIS data and to produce habitat maps useful for a coastal zone management project.

During the practical lecture the student will compile a logbook following exercises with instructions. The logbook can be used as support for the finale exam.

Assessment methods

The exam will be practical and done in the computer lab. The student will follow 4 exercise and provide answers to specific questions.

Teaching tools

The student will receive the spatial data for the exercises and the .ppt presentations of both theoretical and practical lectures.

Office hours

See the website of Federica Foglini

See the website of Attilio Rinaldi