Automated Cartography of Fisheries Oceanographic Atlas Using ArcPy Based on Global Time Series Grid Data of Marine Environment. (February 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zhou, Weifeng; Li, Yingxue; Hou, Juan; Fan, Wei; Xu, Liangqi; Xiao, Weiping
• Is Part Of: IOP conference series. Volume 234(2019)
• Publication Date: 2019-02
• Subjects: Earth sciences -- Periodicals; Environmental sciences -- Congresses; Environmental sciences -- Periodicals; 550.5
• DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/234/1/012023
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1755-1307

Abstract

Abstract: The fisheries oceanographic atlas contributes to the study of fishery location distribution, fish movement law and reveal the periodicity of marine environment change. It provides a more accurate reference for fishery production and sea state trends, and is widely used in marine fishery research. According to the global time series distribution of marine environment and fishery resource, the global time series fisheries oceanographic atlas are drawn. The difficulty of production lies in the repeated drawing steps and massive multi-source data. The automatic production of fisheries oceanographic atlas based on ArcPy effectively improves the drawing efficiency and simplifies the product process, as well as provides a convenient way for batch production of atlas. This paper introduced the cartographic elements of fisheries oceanographic atlas including marine environment data, fishery resource data and foundational base map. According to the data categories and characteristics of marine environment data, analyzed the advantages of grid data in marine data storage, retrieval and reading, and proposes the automatic production technology of fisheries oceanographic atlas based on ArcPy. Summarizing the key of automated production technology by taking the western Pacific skipjack as an example.