• Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.51-60
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• 2001

Recently there have been many trials and studies for various approaching to build the effective application environments for Marine Geographic Information System(GIS) in the cross sections of marine and GIS fields. But the most of these contributions were focused on their special purposes, and these vertically unmanaged and independent development necessarily caused more basic issues, which would be one of the primary elements to establish Marine Geospatial Information Infrastructure(MGII). Herein, we discuss a brief conceptual aspects of Marine GIS and its components, and then we try to give some fundamental issues especially concentrated on the needs and importance of standardization as well as guidelines for that.