Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Remote Sensing of the European Seas

  • Book
  • © 2008

Overview

Editors:
  1. Vittorio Barale

    1. European Commission, Italy

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Martin Gade

    1. University of Hamburg, Germany

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • 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

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (37 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction to Remote Sensing of the European Seas

    1. The European Marginal and Enclosed Seas: An Overview

      • Vittorio Barale
      Pages 3-22

    2. Remote Sensing of the European Seas: A Historical Outlook

      • T. D. Allan
      Pages 23-32

  3. Visible & Thermal Infrared Passive/Active Remote Sensing

    1. Ocean Colour Remote Sensing of the Optically Complex European Seas

      • J. -F. Berthon, F. Mélin, G. Zibordi
      Pages 35-52

    2. Case Studies of Optical Remote Sensing in the Barents Sea, Black Sea and Caspian Sea

      • O. V. Kopelevich, V. I. Burenkov, S. V. Sheberstov
      Pages 53-66

    3. Variations in the Phytoplankton of the North-Eastern Atlantic Ocean: From the Irish Sea to the Bay of Biscay

      • S. J. Lavender, D. E. Raitsos, Y. Pradhan
      Pages 67-78

    4. Optical Remote Sensing of the North Sea

      • K. Ruddick, G. Lacroix, C. Lancelot, B. Nechad, Y. Park, S. Peters et al.
      Pages 79-90

    5. Optical Remote Sensing Applications in the Baltic Sea

      • H. Siegel, M. Gerth
      Pages 91-102

    6. Open Waters Optical Remote Sensing of the Mediterranean Sea

      • R. Santoleri, G. Volpe, S. Marullo, B. Buongiorno Nardelli
      Pages 103-116

    7. Optical Remote Sensing of Intertidal Flats

      • C. Brockmann, K. Stelzer
      Pages 117-128

    8. Visible and Infrared Remote Sensing of the White Sea Bio-Geo-Chemistry and Hydrology

      • D. Pozdnyakov, A. Korosov, L. Pettersson
      Pages 129-140

    9. Remote Sensing of Coastal Upwelling in the North-Eastern Atlantic Ocean

      • I. Ambar, J. Dias
      Pages 141-152

    10. On the Use of Thermal Images for Circulation Studies: Applications to the Eastern Mediterranean Basin

      • I. Taupier-Letage
      Pages 153-164

    11. Current Tracking in the Mediterranean Sea Using Thermal Satellite Imagery

      • S. Dransfeld
      Pages 165-176

    12. The Next Generation of Multi-Sensor Merged Sea Surface Temperature Data Sets for Europe

      • C. Donlon
      Pages 177-188

    13. Laser Remote Sensing of the European Marine Environment: LIF Technology and Applications

      • S. Babichenko
      Pages 189-204

  4. Microwave Passive/Active Remote Sensing

    1. Microwave Radiometry and Radiometers for Ocean Applications

      • N. Skou
      Pages 207-222

    2. Microwave Aperture Synthesis Radiometry: Paving the Path for Sea Surface Salinity Measurement from Space

      • J. Font, A. Camps, J. Ballabrera-Poy
      Pages 223-238

    3. Sea Ice Parameters from Microwave Radiometry

      • S. Kern, L. Kaleschke, G. Spreen, R. Ezraty, F. Girard-Ardhuin, G. Heygster et al.
      Pages 239-250

    4. Introduction to Microwave Active Techniques and Backscatter Properties

      • P. Hoogeboom, L. Lidicky
      Pages 251-268
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

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

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation