Remote Sensing of Aquatic Coastal Ecosystem Processes

• Section I - Science Applications.- REMOTE SENSING AND THE SCIENCE, MONITORING, AND MANAGEMENT OF AQUATIC COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS.- EXTREME EVENTS AND PERTURBATIONS OF COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS.- OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES TO ESTIMATE PHYTOPLANKTON CHLOROPHYLL a CONCENTRATIONS IN COASTAL.- A TOOL FOR INVERSE MODELING OF SPECTRAL MEASUREMENTS IN DEEP AND SHALLOW WATERS.- INTEGRATION OF CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEM PROCESS STUDIES AND REMOTE SENSING.- Section II - Monitoring Applications.- INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPABILITIES OF A NEAR REAL-TIME METEOROLOGICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC IN SITU INSTRUM.- AIRBORNE LASER ALTIMETRY FOR PREDICTIVE MODELING OF COASTAL STORM-SURGE FLOODING.- INTEGRATION OF NEW DATA TYPES WITH HISTORICAL ARCHIVES TO PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO COASTAL ECOSYSTEM CHA.- Section III - Management Applications.- OBSERVING COASTAL WATERS WITH SPACEBORNE SENSORS.- THE ROLE OF INTEGRATED INFORMATION ACQUISITION AND MANAGEMENT IN THE ANALYSIS OF COASTAL ECOSYSTEM C.- MAPPING OF CORAL REEFS FOR MANAGEMENT OF MARINE PROTECTED AREAS IN DEVELOPING NATIONS USING REMOTE S.- DATA SYNTHESIS FOR COASTAL AND CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT AT REGIONAL AND GLOBAL SCALES.- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SCIENTISTS AND MANAGERS FOR APPLICATION OF REMOTE SENSING TO COASTAL WATERS.

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)