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| | About Arc Marine, the ArcGIS Marine Data Model |
 | | By "marine community" we mean people who apply GIS to the coasts, estuaries, marginal seas, and/or the deep ocean: academic, government or military oceanographers, coastal resource managers and consultants, marine technologists, nautical archaeologists, marine conservationists, marine and coastal geographers, fisheries managers and scientists, ocean explorers/mariners, etc. |
 | | The goal is to provide more accurate representations of location and spatial extent, along with a means for conducting more complex spatial analyses of marine and coastal data by capturing the behavior of real-world objects in a geodatabase. |
 | | ArcGIS data models also support existing data standards, so as to help simplify the integration of data at various jurisdictional levels (i.e., local, state/provincial, national, global). |
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