THE ESTIMATION OF THE OCEANOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS IN THE AREA OF THE FISHERING USING REMOTE SENSING AND GIS TECHNOLOGIES

In the present work the GIS technologies is used for the analysis of oceanographic conditions and the estimation of the fishing situation on an example of the catching the saira in the North-West area of the Pacific Ocean. The vector GIS ArcGIS and raster GIS IDRISI was used. The analysis were based on the satellite information about the fields of the sea surface temperatures received from satellite NOAA, the altimetric sea level data obtained from satellites Topex/Poseidon, ERS-1/2 and the satellite images of the ocean color data from SeaWiFS. The application of the overlay algorithm with using various combinations of layers in the GIS had allowed to reveal the formation of the raised fishery efficiency zones.