...This site and the companion book, "Mississippi Gulf Coast Shipbuilding Corridor," (to be released late March 2007) were commissioned by the Mississippi Gulf Coast Alliance for Economic Development, a group of economic development leaders from six counties in South Mississippi - George, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River and Stone.
...The information was compiled and written by Tortorano Commissioned Publications, an independent research firm in Gulf Breeze, FL.
...The maps were produced using a combination of Google Earth Pro and satellite images available to the public through the Applied Research and Technology Project Office at Stennis Space Center, MS (https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/mrsid.pl).
...The concept maps were produced using CMap tools developed by the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, FL (http://www.ihmc.us/).
