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Estuarine andCoastal Management -Toolsof<strong>the</strong> Abstract only<br />

Trade. ProceedingsofIheTenth <strong>National</strong> Conference<br />

of TheCoastalSociety. October12-15.19<strong>86</strong>. New<br />

Orleans,LA. Copyrightby TheCoastalSociety<br />

1987.<br />

INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR ESTUARINE<br />

ANDCOASTALDATA MANAGEMENT<br />

Eldon C.Blanchern<br />

TAI Envfrcrtnientil Sciences. Inc.<br />

P.O. Box <strong>86</strong>44<br />

Mobile, AL 36608<br />

Several Information Management systems have been developed which integrate<br />

management, bibliographic and scientific data utilizing microcomputers. These systems are<br />

designed withreadily available hardware and commercially available software so that <strong>the</strong>yare<br />

relatively inexpensive to implement and operate. One such system was implemented on a<br />

microcomputer system with two distinct levels. The first level contains <strong>the</strong> data base programs, a<br />

general information file, a bibliographic file and a condensed data file with scientific and<br />

management information. The second level consists of a minicomputer or mainframe data base<br />

which is accessedthrough<strong>the</strong> microcomputer system. The distributivedatabase design makes<br />

available a large variety of data on a single system. Integration with o<strong>the</strong>r software such as<br />

geographic informationsystems (GIS) andstatistical andmodelingpackagesresultsin a powerful<br />

tool for coastal andestuanne information management.

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