CHAPTER 33
Mike Info Coast - A GIS-Based Tool for Coastal Zone Management
R. Andersen
ABSTRACT: MIKE INFO Coast is a product from the Danish Hydraulic Institute
(DHI) specifically designed for the handling of coastal data. It is constructed as an
extension to ArcView 3.0, and it thus has all the benefits of a GIS. Apart from
geographical maps, MIKE INFO Coast handles data such as bathymetric surveys,
coastal profiles, images and various types of hydrographical measurements (e.g. wind
and wave data). With MIKE INFO Coast it is possible, in a user-friendly manner, to
manipulate (heterogeneous) coastal data in various ways (e.g. calculation of volume
changes from survey to survey). Reports and standard presentations for decision
support can also be easily generated. Naturally, MIKE INFO Coast exchanges data
with DHI’s other software products, such as LITPACK and MIKE 21.
Background
Historically, the Danish Hydraulic Institute (DHI) has focused its computing efforts in
the computer simulation area. Thus, since the end of the 1960s, DHI has developed
models of various kinds. Some of the most well known are MIKE 21 (a modelling
system of 2D free surface flows), MOUSE (a modelling system for pipe networks),
MIKE 11 (a system for the 1D modelling of rivers, channels and irrigation systems)
and LITPACK (an integrated modelling system for littoral processes and coastline
kinetics).
With the spread of computer technology in recent years, however, it has
become apparent that the task of evaluating model result data is no longer solely the
task of the expert. An explicit need for user-friendly access to complex models and
their results has been expressed. In order to accommodate this DHI has developed
various interfaces to the models. As all the models of DHI ultimately express
geographic information, a GIS (ArcView) has been chosen for the presentation of the
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D.R. Green and S.D. King (eds.), Coastal and Marine Geo-Information Systems, 467–472.
© 2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands.
Mike Info Coast - A GIS-Based Tool for Coastal Zone Management
R. Andersen
ABSTRACT: MIKE INFO Coast is a product from the Danish Hydraulic Institute
(DHI) specifically designed for the handling of coastal data. It is constructed as an
extension to ArcView 3.0, and it thus has all the benefits of a GIS. Apart from
geographical maps, MIKE INFO Coast handles data such as bathymetric surveys,
coastal profiles, images and various types of hydrographical measurements (e.g. wind
and wave data). With MIKE INFO Coast it is possible, in a user-friendly manner, to
manipulate (heterogeneous) coastal data in various ways (e.g. calculation of volume
changes from survey to survey). Reports and standard presentations for decision
support can also be easily generated. Naturally, MIKE INFO Coast exchanges data
with DHI’s other software products, such as LITPACK and MIKE 21.
Background
Historically, the Danish Hydraulic Institute (DHI) has focused its computing efforts in
the computer simulation area. Thus, since the end of the 1960s, DHI has developed
models of various kinds. Some of the most well known are MIKE 21 (a modelling
system of 2D free surface flows), MOUSE (a modelling system for pipe networks),
MIKE 11 (a system for the 1D modelling of rivers, channels and irrigation systems)
and LITPACK (an integrated modelling system for littoral processes and coastline
kinetics).
With the spread of computer technology in recent years, however, it has
become apparent that the task of evaluating model result data is no longer solely the
task of the expert. An explicit need for user-friendly access to complex models and
their results has been expressed. In order to accommodate this DHI has developed
various interfaces to the models. As all the models of DHI ultimately express
geographic information, a GIS (ArcView) has been chosen for the presentation of the
467
D.R. Green and S.D. King (eds.), Coastal and Marine Geo-Information Systems, 467–472.
© 2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands.