MARINE GEOLOGY MAP-MAKING AND DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BASED ON ARCGIS

The marine geological map is a kind of product made on field data. It is extremely useful to serve the economic construction and scientific development of the society. Although the map-making technology has become very matured in recent years with the rapid development of geographic information technology and database technology, the current status of map-making process remains unsatisfied. For some of the mapping programs, using GIS software to make map is only the practice to replace the paper map with an electronic version. People still have to spend a lot of time for sorting of data warehouse in order to fill up the gap between map-making and data management. In order to overcome the inefficiency and inconveniency, this paper suggests an integrated performance for both map-making and database-building up, and a system for the integrated performance is designed. The system will standardize the marine geological survey map-making process, fill up the gap between the marine geological mapping and database construction, and then, promote a reasonable and practical specifications for mapping data standardization.