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return to our launch location, we sped across the bay chased by lightning, thunder
and torrential rain. We eventually found protection in a marina convenience store
and played cards until safe skies returned.
Measuring Sedimentary Processes in Papua New Guinea
with GIS
If you have not heard of GIS (Geographic Information Systems), you should be
aware of this important digital approach/software for analyzing human and environmental data. It is being used around the world today to examine spatial relationships
in data, such as communities mapping critical infrastructure or businesses examining revenues for different locations. I realized the power of GIS when I worked on
Fig. 6.2 (Top)
Measurements of wind
speeds and waves in
Pamlico Sound, North
Carolina, USA, as a storm
passed in February 2010
(Walsh data). (Bottom)
Satellite image of Pamlico
Sound showing sediment
resuspended by the wave
action, transported into the
ocean, and carried by the
Gulf Stream. (MODIS
image from NASA)
6 What Lies Beneath? Revealing Coastal Processes Through Mapping