Overview
- Emphasis on real use of remote sensing to support current science and management
- Case studies and overview of the use of remote sensing in coastal management
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing (RDIP, volume 9)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Section I - Science Applications
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Section II - Monitoring Applications
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Section III - Management Applications
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About this book
The aquatic coastal zone is one of the most challenging targets for environmental remote sensing. Properties such as bottom reflectance, spectrally diverse suspended sediments and phytoplankton communities, diverse benthic communities, and transient events that affect surface reflectance (coastal blooms, runoff, etc.) all combine to produce an optical complexity not seen in terrestrial or open ocean systems. Despite this complexity, remote sensing is proving to be an invaluable tool for "Case 2" waters. This book presents recent advances in coastal remote sensing with an emphasis on applied science and management. Case studies of the operational use of remote sensing in ecosystem studies, monitoring, and interfacing remote sensing/science/management are presented. Spectral signatures of phytoplankton and suspended sediments are discussed in detail with accompanying discussion of why blue water (Case 1) algorithms cannot be applied to Case 2 waters.
Audience
This book is targeted for scientists and managers interested in using remote sensing in the study or management of aquatic coastal environments. With only limited discussion of optics and theory presented in the book, such researchers might benefit from the detailed presentations of aquatic spectral signatures, and to operational management issues. While not specifically written for remote sensing scientists, it will prove to be a useful reference for this community for the current status of aquatic coastal remote sensing.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"The objective is to introduce aquatic scientists and managers of coastal aquatic ecosystems to the possibilities of remote sensing techniques. … The book is one of the rare collective works, in which the subject matter is so well integrated and presented by the editors. When this reviewer read in the introduction that the editors suggest the book can be used as a resource manual, he did not believe the assumption at first. However, he now believes this to be quiet true." (Geomatica, Vol. 61 (3), 2007)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Remote Sensing of Aquatic Coastal Ecosystem Processes
Book Subtitle: Science and Management Applications
Editors: LAURIE L. RICHARDSON, ELLSWORTH F. LeDREW
Series Title: Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3968-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3967-6Published: 02 February 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8425-2Published: 23 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3968-3Published: 11 June 2006
Series ISSN: 1567-3200
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1842
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 324
Topics: Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Environmental Management, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Algorithms