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Remote Sensing of the European Seas

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Editors:
  1. Vittorio Barale

    1. European Commission, Italy

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  2. Martin Gade

    1. University of Hamburg, Germany

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  • Focus on the issues, peculiarities and special challenges of the European Seas
  • Complete and thorough review of the current Earth Observations potential
  • Section devoted to multi-technique assessments of the marine environment

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Table of contents (37 chapters)

  1. Microwave Passive/Active Remote Sensing

    1. Scatterometer Applications in the European Seas

      • A. Stoffelen
      Pages 269-282

    2. Radar Altimetry: Introduction and Application to Air-Sea Interaction

      • D. K. Woolf, C. Gommenginger
      Pages 283-294

    3. 15 Years of Altimetry at Various Scales over the Mediterranean

      • P. Cipollini, S. Vignudelli, F. Lyard, L. Roblou
      Pages 295-306

    4. Can we Reconstruct the 20th Century Sea Level Variability in the Mediterranean Sea on the Basis of Recent Altimetric Measurements?

      • M. N. Tsimplis, A. G. P. Shaw, A. Pascual, M. Marcos, M. Pasaric, L. Fenoglio-Marc
      Pages 307-318

    5. Internal Waves Generated in the Straits of Gibraltar and Messina: Observations from Space

      • W. Alpers, P. Brandt, A. Rubino
      Pages 319-330

    6. High Resolution Wind Field Retrieval from Synthetic Aperture Radar: North Sea Examples

      • J. Horstmann, W. Koch
      Pages 331-342

    7. Satellite Imaging for Maritime Surveillance of the European Seas

      • H. Greidanus
      Pages 343-358

    8. Oil Spill Detection in Northern European Waters: Approaches and Algorithms

      • A. H. S. Solberg, C. Brekke
      Pages 359-370

    9. The Use of Satellite Imagery from Archives to Monitor Oil Spills in the Mediterranean Sea

      • G. Ferraro, B. Bulgarelli, S. Meyer-Roux, O. Muellenhoff, D. Tarchi, K. Topouzelis
      Pages 371-382

    10. Sea Ice Monitoring in the Arctic and Baltic Sea Using SAR

      • J. Askne, W. Dierking
      Pages 383-398

    11. SAR Observation of Rip Currents off the Portuguese Coast

      • J. C. B. da Silva
      Pages 399-410

    12. Current Measurements in European Coastal Waters and Rivers by Along-Track InSAR

      • R. Romeiser, H. Runge
      Pages 411-422

    13. Wave and Current Observations in European Waters by Ground-Based X-Band Radar

      • F. Ziemer
      Pages 423-434

    14. Nautical Radar Measurements in Europe: Applications of WaMos II as a Sensor for Sea State, Current and Bathymetry

      • K. G. Hessner, J. C. Nieto-Borge, P. S. Bell
      Pages 435-446

    15. Land-Based Over-the-Horizon Radar Techniques for Monitoring the North-East Atlantic Coastal Zone

      • K. -W. Gurgel, T. Schlick
      Pages 447-460

  2. Multi-Sensor Techniques

    1. Multi-Sensor Observations of Meso-Scale Features in European Coastal Waters

      • O. Lavrova, M. Mityagina, T. Bocharova, Martin Gade
      Pages 463-474

    2. Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing of Coastal Discharge Plumes: A Mediterranean Test Site

      • Martin Gade, Vittorio Barale
      Pages 475-486

    3. Sea Ice Monitoring in the European Arctic Seas Using a Multi-Sensor Approach

      • S. Sandven
      Pages 487-498

  3. Back Matter

    Pages 499-513
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Princess Enheduanna, daughter of king Sargon of Akkad, lived around 2300 BC. She was a high priestess of the moon god Nanna in the ancient city of Ur. And an accomplished poet too. In fact, she is the author of a number of Sumerian hymns, and is generally considered to be the earliest author known by name. When she came to honor Inanna – the goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare, daughter of Nanna and often associated with the planet Venus (the one that the Akkadians called Ishtar) – above all the other gods of the Sumerian pantheon, she mentioned for the very first time, in her Hymn number 8, nothing less than the “Seven Seas”. . . Septem Maria, would call them the Romans centuries later, after inher- ing the concept from the Greeks (for whom seven probably just meant several), but perhaps applying it to the wrong place – i. e. the extensive system of coastal lagoons, which at the time dotted the northern Adriatic Sea – at least in the description of Pliny the Elder, Roman fleet commander and scholarly author of Historia Naturalis. Indeed, which seven seas are int- ded depends on the context. According to the historians, there are at least nine bodies of water in the medieval European and Arabic literature that can - pire to qualify as one of the famous seven.

Editors and Affiliations

  • European Commission, Italy

    Vittorio Barale

  • University of Hamburg, Germany

    Martin Gade

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