MIKE Marine GIS - Your data manager for coastal projects

MIKE Marine GIS is specially designed for shoreline management applications. It is a powerful tool for the management of all relevant data monitoring of the morphological evolution in the coastal zone, for instance in connection with evaluation of the impact from nourishment schemes, harbours and coastal protection works.

MIKE Marine GIS includes a marine Geodatabase and specialised modules for importing, analysing and visualizing data used in coastal engineering within ArcGIS™. Presently the specialised modules include:

• Time Series Manager for eg time series of measurements
• Surface Manager for eg 2D model data (bathymetries, result files, etc)
• Survey Manager for eg survey data (x, y, z)
• Transect Manager for creating eg profiles from survey data
• Coastline Manager for creating and comparing coastlines
• Image Manager for managing documents and images

MIKE Marine GIS contains specialised modules for all data types normally used in coastal engineering, including:

• coastline position
• coastal profiles
• land use data
• waves, currents, water levels and winds
• sediment properties
• photographs
• aerial photographs
• maps

All data can be stored with a complete history for the analysis of coastline development and calculation of volume changes both performed in a user-specified area.

MIKE Marine GIS contains the necessary input modules to interface with traditional methods of coastline surverys, including digitisation modules. By using the powerful GIS facilities measured or simulated data can be compared directly to both historical data and data from other sources like aerial photographs or maps.

Based on profile meaurements various methods of calculation of volume changes may be applied to the data, including the generation of complete 2D contour maps of the area, generation of differential maps, etc.

To extend the system with powerful modelling capabilities MIKE Marine GIS may link directly up to the DHI LITPACK model, which simulates littoral processes, including coastline evolution and the MIKE 21 model for detailed modelling of processes around structures.

The MIKE Marine GIS Extension is a plug-in to ArcGIS™ from ESRI.