Session Description: As is well known, in recent years, numerous studies have attempted to apply geospatial technologies, especially very high resolution satellite imagery and spatial analysis to coastal zone. However, further research is needed to address management and conservation in ecologically vulnerable coastal areas that are also dependent on economic benefits of tourism.
Therefore, the goal of the session will be to bring together a diverse range of geographer, managers and decision makers to discuss studies currently in progress and the need for geospatial techniques and spatial analysis they related to the sustainable development and preservation of coastal zones and tourism sites.
Potential topics for this session include, but are not limited to, the following.
1) Management of tourist sites by means of geospatial techniques such as analysis of very high resolution satellite images, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and geographic information systems (GIS)
2) Change detection of coastal shorelines or coastal zones with respect to environmental considerations of dunes, sea turtles, shrimp, coral reeves and waterfowl.
3) Environmental issues as they related to maritime forests, coastal marshes, unspoiled beaches, and historic sites in coastal barrier islands.
This session will consist of 15 minutes of oral presentation on research or research-in-progress with 5 minutes of discussion.
To present a paper in the session:
1. Register and submit your abstract online(http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/)
2. Email your presenter identification number (PIN), paper title, and abstract to yby@uga.edu by November 12, 2008 (one days before the extended AAG abstract submission deadline).
