The Geographic Information System on the Charentais sounds was one of the first developed by the research group SILLAGE (DEL/AO). The coastal regional shellfish laboratories are pursuing their efforts to enrich and develop the georeferenced databases, to reach a coherent and comprehensive meta-database. The shellfish resarch laboratory of Poitou-Charentes (LCPC) from IFEMER's departrnent of aquaculture resources has developed research themes based upon the GIS use, a powerful tool for spatial analysis. Those programs are commonly developed by ail shellfi sh coastal laboratory at IFREMER's level, prompting us to suggest the applications' transfers to other research units. Various applications and developments using Arc View software were reviewed in this... |