Remote Sensing of Ocean and Coastal Environments

ISBN-13: 9780128196045 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 428 str.

Meenu Rani; Kaliraj Seenipandi; Sufia Rehman

Spis treści

Section 1 Ocean and Coastal Environment - Definitions, Processes and Dynamics 1. Ocean Remote sensing: Platforms, Sensors, Instruments, Data Products, and Processing Tools 2. Remote Sensing for Ocean Dynamics - Algorithms, Models, Techniques, Applications 3. Remote sensing of Ocean water properties 4. Remote sensing of Ocean Surface and Atmospheric Parameters 5. Remote Sensing for Coastal Dynamics - Monitoring and Assessment

Section 2 Remote sensing of Ocean Dynamics Measurements 6. Satellite altimetry for wave height, shoaling and upwelling 7. Space borne Scatterometer measurement of wind, wind stress and current 8. Ocean color monitoring  9. Nutrient flux  10. Modeling Biomass and Carbon of Oceanic Ecosystems 11. Ocean Water Turbidity 12. Colored Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) 13. Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and Sea surface salinity 14. Ocean Heat flux and Head budget 15. Fisheries and Phytoplankton (Chlorophyll-a) biomass

Section 3 Remote Sensing for Ocean and Coastal Environment and Ecosystems 16. Optical properties of coastal water  17. Suspended sediment concentration and transportation 18. Coastal Environment monitoring and assessment (offshore, nearshore and backshore) 19. Remote Sensing Techniques for Studying Coastal Ecosystems 20. Coastal Ecosystems, Habitat Protection, and management (estuaries, backwater, mangroves, salt marshes, tidal flats, wetlands) 21. Remote sensing for Wetland Dynamics 22. Biomass and Carbon of Coastal water Ecosystems

Section 4 Remote sensing for Ocean and Coastal Hazards and Vulnerability Management 23. Ocean monitoring for Oil Spills and Pollutions 24. Coastal erosion and accretion measurement  25. Shoreline change detection and assessment 26. Coastal Hazards: flooding, sea level rise and storm surges 27. Coastal vulnerability modelling of physical, environmental and habitats damages 28. Seawater intrusion and groundwater contamination 29. Coastal land use and land cover change impacts

Section 5 Remote sensing for Ocean and Coastal Management and Development  30. Climate change on Ocean and Coastal Environment 31. Ocean water pollution monitoring and assessment 32. Spatio-temporal change of Coastal Area management 33. Coastal Environment and Ecosystem conservation and management 34. Coastal degradation monitoring and assessment 35. Future challenges of Ocean and Coastal Management and Development