Coastal Research Library: Advances in Coastal and Marine Resources

Finkl, Charles W.; Makowski, Christopher

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 world’s 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.

Details

Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2014-09-12

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319063256

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-06326-3

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 502