Designing and Developing an Alternative Implementation of the Digital Bathymetric Database, Variable Resolution (DBDB-V)

<p>This documentation describes a project to design and develop an alternative implementation of the Digital Bathymetric Database Variable Resolution (<em>DBDB-V</em>) that will allow efficient ingestion into Geospatial Information System (<em>GIS</em>). DBDB-V is a well-known storage facility for wide-reaching <em>bathymetry</em>. It is created, maintained, and extensively used by the U.S. Navy, and it is seen in many applications within the public sector. Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) develops a popular suite of GIS applications called <em>ArcGIS Desktop</em> that is used worldwide and offered to U.S. Navy programs though the Commercial Joint Mapping Toolkit (<em>CJMTK</em>). This thesis will examine the development of an ESRI-compatible spatial geodatabase (GDB) that will hold the DBDB-V data and provide native data ingestion into ESRI products thereby improving the efficiency of how bathymetry is used within the GIS. It will also investigate tools needed to build and update the geodatabase as well as to provide access to the data stored within it. The thesis will also consider test cases to validate the new geodatabase and its tools.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Geography and Geology

Year dc:date.available

2012

Author dc:creator

• Brandon, Donald Lester, Jr.

Contributors dc:contributor

• George Raber
• Clifton Dixon
• Gregory Carter

Repository record dc:identifier

https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/419

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:aquila.usm.edu:masters_theses-1488