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Zusatztext "The book is a great read and will be of interest to people who wish to examine how science can be shaped and can shape public sentiment! and to environmental scientists! students! and policy and decision makers who wish to understand the science and possible applications of remote sensing of inland and coastal waters. ?the author creates a clear picture of the successes and failures of this field. He presents numerous suggestions and illustrations of how remote sensing can emerge into a supportive definitive science rather than a support of a proposed or established policy."-Elijah W. Ramsey! III! Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing! Vol. 72! No. 11! November 2006 Informationen zum Autor Bukata\! Robert P. Klappentext Satellite Monitoring of Inland and Coastal Water Quality: Retrospection! Introspection! Future Directions reviews how aquatic optics models convert remote determinations of water color into accurate assessments of water quality. This book illustrates how this conversion generates products of value for the environmental monitoring of optically complex inland and coastal waters. The author emphasizes how terrestrial! aquatic! and wetland remote sensing are underutilized tools due to a lack of influential end-usership. He reviews this disinterest and examines why it exists! how it can be abated! and the synergies that need to be activated among technologists! scientists! entrepreneurs! policy-makers! and water quality professionals. Zusammenfassung This book reviews how aquatic optics models convert remote determinations of water color into accurate assessments of water quality. It illustrates how this conversion generates products of value for the environmental monitoring of optically complex inland and coastal waters. The author emphasizes how terrestrial, aquatic, and wetland remote sensin Inhaltsverzeichnis Navel gazing at remote sensing of inland andcoastal waters from spaceEnvironmental monitoring from space The remote sensing definition of water quality The plight of remotely monitoring case 2 water quality The irony of remote sensing End-users of aquatic remote sensing products1.6 Aquatic remote sensing products What went wrong with the great potential?Models! models! models! modelsThe inevitable compromise of aquatic remote sensing Some concluding comments Remote sensing of inland water quality:a science primerRemotely sensing the Earth from spaceRemotely sensing aquatic color from spaceRemotely sensing inland and coastal water quality from space The scientific methodology (forward and inverse models)Concluding remarks The science of remotely sensing case 2 water qualityAquatic optics and water color Case 1 and case 2 watersInherent optical properties (optical cross section spectra)Forward and inverse optical modelingTrans-spectral processesRemote sensing reflectance The status of remote sensing science Applications of water quality products to environmentalmonitoring What do environmental end-users want? What do environmental end-users need?What can environmental end-users be given?Benefits of incorporating remote estimates of water qualityinto environmental monitoring protocols: value-addedremote sensingInland and coastal (case 2) water quality productsProviders and users: a marketplace reality checkApplications of inland and coastal water color productsMapping water clarity Mapping chlorophyll concentrations (and primary production)of mid-oceanic (case 1) watersMapping chlorophyll concentrations (and primary production)of optically complex inland and coastal (case 2) waters Monitoring the extent and progress of blue-green algaeblooms and red tidesDelineating the presence of inorganic turbidity in inland andcoastal waters Monitoring the extent and progress of marine and inlandoil spillsDelineating the regional groundwater discharge! recharge! andtransition areas (and temporal changes therein) Monitoring inlan...
