COASTAL TRANSPORT INTEGRATED SYSTEM IN THE AEGEAN SEA ISLANDS: FRAMEWORK, METHODOLOGY, DATA ISSUES AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS
Greece has more than one hundred inhabited islands, the majority of them are geographically scattered in small distances in the Aegean Sea. The Aegean Sea suffers systematically from two major issues. First, many islands are not served quite frequently with the continent or other islands' major...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2013-05-01
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| Series: | The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences |
| Online Access: | http://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XL-4-W1/133/2013/isprsarchives-XL-4-W1-133-2013.pdf |
| Summary: | Greece has more than one hundred inhabited islands, the majority of them are geographically scattered in small distances in the
Aegean Sea. The Aegean Sea suffers systematically from two major issues. First, many islands are not served quite frequently with
the continent or other islands' major ports. It is a situation rather problematic for the habitants of the islands who wish to travel, for
the patients in need to be transferred to metropolitan hospitals, for the goods transport from and to islands. Second, there is a crucial
issue in the Aegean Sea regarding the so-called "thin lines". Governments spend every year tens of million euros in subsidies in
order to sustain the thin lines. Our aim is the development of an integrated and holistic spatial information system to effectively
design coastal transportation lines to combat the above mentioned problems. This paper will present the project framework, the
methodology followed, data issues and preliminary results. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1750 2194-9034 |