INTEGRATED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (IIMS)

Integrated Information Management System or IIMS is an environmental database specially tailored for coastal zone management. It allows storage, data retrieval and manipulation of data that suit user needs. This software is really helpful in the field of environmental planning, management and assessment. It can be applied for environmental profiling, strategic environmental planning, risk assessment and environmental monitoring.

Eight categories that is available is the software is as below:

IIMS Regions, Sites, Data Classes
Biological & Bioresources
Socio-Economic
Demographic Data
Pollution Sources Data
Monitoring Data
Physiographic Data
Institutional Data

 

IIMS Regions, Sites, Data Classes

This category stores the Port Klang ICM site location and its map

Biological & Bioresources

This category holds the inventory of habitats and biological resources at the site. Among its subclass are coral reef, fish and shellfish, benthos, plankton, aquaculture resources, seaweed, sea grass and forest resource.

Socio-Economic

This category contains data related to the economic activities in the project area. The data is classified into major economic categories; fisheries, aquaculture, agriculture, port and shipping, industry, mining, tourism and forestry.

Demographic Data

Data on this category includes census, income level, vital statistics, employment, waterborne diseases, and religious affiliation.

Institutional Category

Government agencies, NGOs, academe that are related to coastal and marine environmental management, together with their various plans is stored in this category.

Pollution source

This category is divided into two parts; land-based and sea-based sources. Among the sub-category is industrial, commercial, household and agricultural activity. Sea-based sources include oil spills from ships, oil production platforms and chemical spills.

Monitoring Data

This section stores data related to environmental monitoring such as water quality, ground water quality, sediment quality and tissue analysis.

Physiographic Data

Oceanographic data, hydrology data and geological data are the sub-category in this menu. All the data in this category can be an input in hydrodynamic modeling, ecological and pollutant fate modeling.