Remote Sensing and Modeling Advances in Coastal and Marine Resources [Hardcover]

This book is geared for advanced level research in the general subject area of remote sensing and modeling as they apply to the coastal marine environment. The various chapters focus on the latest scientific and technical advances in the service of better understanding coastal marine environments for their care, conservation and management. Chapters specifically deal with advances in remote sensing coastal classifications, environmental monitoring, digital ocean technological advances, geophysical methods, geoacoustics, X-band radar, risk assessment models, GIS applications, real-time modeling systems, and spatial modeling. Readers will find this book useful because it summarizes applications of new research methods in one of the worlds most dynamic and complicated environments. Chapters in this book will be of interest to specialists in the coastal marine environment who deals with aspects of environmental monitoring and assessment via remote sensing techniques and numerical modeling.

Part I?Remote Sensing, Mapping and Survey of Coastal Biophysical Environments.- Remote Sensing of Coastal Ecosystems and Environments.- Advanced Techniques for Mapping Biophysical Environments on Carbonate?Banks Using Laser Airborne Depth Sounding (LADS) and IKONOS Satellite Imagery.- Terrestrial Laser Scanner Surveying in Coastal Settings.- Advances in Applied Remote Sensing to Coastal Environments Using Free?Satellite Imagery.- Remote Sensing and Modeling of Coral Reef Resilience.- An Assessment of Physiographic Habitats, Geomorphology and Evolution of Chilika Lagoon (Odisha, India) Using Geospatial Technology.- Foreshore Applications of X-band Radar.- Part II? Advances in the Study and Interpretation of Coastal Oceans, Estuaries, Sea-Level Variation and Water Quality.- Digital Ocean Technological Advances.- A New Statistical-Empirical Hybrid Based Model to Estimate Seasonal Sea-Level Variation in the Gulf of Paria from River Discharge.- Advances in Modeling of Water Qualitlc*