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NEW TOOL FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF THE ROMANIAN MARITIME SPACE SECURITY

Cristian Cudalbu

Abstract

Like other European maritime countries, Romania is trying to respond appropriately and to adjust its policies to the current challenges and geopolitical developments. Among the decisive steps made in this regard, is the redefining of its actual maritime space security. A new tool, namely created, tested and commissioned in this regard, within the experimental-demonstrative research project ?Implementation of a geophysical investigation and monitoring tool for Romanian maritime space security ? MAR-S? is a GIS-database able to catalog and hierarchize natural and anthropic structures, constructions, marine infrastructures, information about shipwrecks and naval incidents, about submerged objects, etc., thus providing relevant information regarding the safety and security of the entire Romanian maritime space. Built entirely on open source technologies like Linux Centos 7 for hosting, PHP for programming DB Queries, PostgreSQL with GIS extensions for database hosting, HTML 5 + CSS3 + JavaScript for web interface and user event programming, the MAR-S GIS-database indexes information gathered from official records of local and national naval, civil and military authorities, from historic and recent maritime maps, including e-charts, publications, press, internet and also from GeoEcoMar institute?s own activities at sea (e.g., magnetic and acoustic targets, geomorphological features of the seabed, etc.). The access via internet to contained information is free of charge for several categories of data and regulated by database administrators for the others. The web address of the server that hosts the database is: https://gis.geoecomar.ro/marss/. The main types of information available are: (1) Port facilities (bridges, quays, mooring buoys, etc.); (2) Fishing and Farming areas; (3) Maritime Hydrocarbon Infrastructure (drilling and exploitation rigs, wells, pipelines and protection perimeters); (4) Dangerous areas (rocky seabed, shallow waters, dikes, jetties, wave-breaks, obstacles, restricted and prohibited areas, etc.); (5) Waste waters pipelines; (6) Submarine cables; (7) Naval incidents and shipwrecks (shipwrecks in situ, dismembered or quayed (imbedded in quays), recommissioned ships sites, incident sites, etc.); (8) Snags; (9) Magnetic targets and (10) Acoustic targets.

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DOI resolver: doi.org/10.5593/sgem2019/2.1/s08.127

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