Coastal Security and Risk Management Using GIS and Spatial Analysis

Project Description

With over 240,000km of coastline, Canada depends much on it's surrounding oceans and lakes, which define its geography and dive a lot of its economic prosperity. Consequently coast security and safety are a major issue for this maritime territory. The current post-9/11 priority is largely centred on terrorism, yet safeguarding also encompasses protection against a range of illegal activities, as well as preservation of the coastal environment.

Our challenge is to provide usable tools, as well as land and marine data to meet the requirements of agencies in charge of coastal risk management and monitoring. To do so, we will develope software programs and traffic simulations dedicated to geographic information analyses and tailor them to coastal security particularities, in terms of access, usage and vulnerability.

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Project Sponsors

This project (SLMDSD38) was partially funded by GEOmatics for Informed DEcisions (GEOIDE). The GEOIDE Network is part of the Networks of Centres of Excellence program (NCE). GEOIDE provides a linkage between research instituitions and industry, to bind projects with related themes.

The Canadian Coast Guard provided funding and support to this GEOIDE project.

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