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Atlas of potential areas for cage aquaculture Red Sea - Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia / ???? ??????? ??????? ?????? ??????? ??????? ?? ??????? ?????? ??????

Year of publication 2016

Pages 104 p.

Author Fisheries and Aquaculture Resources Use and Conservation Division

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) A methodology was selected so as to provide a consistent and robust approach to using GIS for data capture, interpretation, storage and analysis. This included the capturing of new coastal and terrestrial data along the Red Sea coastline in the timescale of the project and at an appropriate scale to carry out the site selection study. All spatial datasets are stored in the GIS at JFRC and are used where appropriate as part of the site selection and for the identification of potential areas for d evelopment. Many of the important datasets were captured from an interpretation of detailed satellite imagery.

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