Remote Sensing of Aquatic Coastal Ecosystem Processes | Science and Management Applications

Richardson, Laurie L. and Ellsworth F. LeDrew (Eds.)

ISBN 10: 1402039670 / ISBN 13: 9781402039676

Published by Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2006

About this Item

6-7/16" x 9-11/16", xvii + 326pp + CD bound in vinyl pocket attached to inside back cover. Printed on alkaline paper and bound in sewn signatures in laminated printed board cover. There is a small nick out of the fore edge of the back cover, otherwise light shelf wear to cover. Gift inscription from one of the editors in purple ink on front free end paper. Binding is square and tight. Pages are clean and bright and unmarked. Appears to be an unread copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Remote Sensing of Aquatic Coastal Ecosystem Processes | Science and Management Applications
• Publisher: Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402039670
• ISBN 13: 9781402039676
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed by the Author
  • Science + Technical

About this title

Synopsis

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.

Review

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)