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Determination of coastal and transitional water types and water bodies in the Croatian sea

The Republic of Croatia, as a future EU member states with the anticipated accession to full membership at July 1st, 2013 accepted all the obligations deriving from the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) of the EU (200/60/EC). According with WFD Croatian Waters Company needed determine types of water and the size, shape and position of the transitional and coastal water bodies of the Croatian Adriatic Sea. For successful completion of this demanding job GIS technology was used in processing and analysis of the various spatially defined parameters to generate the aggregated output maps. Taking into account the specific heteroskedasticity of Adriatic catchment area and the definition of a water body as a clear and significant element of surface water category, the total of 23 water bodies in coastal and 29 water bodies in transitional waters in Croatian Adriatic Sea was determined.

Water type bodies ; transitional and coastal waters ; GIS analysis

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