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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.

Remote sensing. --- Ecology. --- Remote-sensing imagery --- Remote sensing systems --- Remote terrain sensing --- Sensing, Remote --- Terrain sensing, Remote --- Aerial photogrammetry --- Aerospace telemetry --- Detectors --- Space optics --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Ecology --- Coastal ecology --- Aquatic biology. --- Environmental management. --- Algorithms. --- Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. --- Freshwater & Marine Ecology. --- Environmental Management. --- Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices. --- Algorism --- Algebra --- Arithmetic --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Management --- Hydrobiology --- Water biology --- Aquatic sciences --- Foundations --- Aquatic ecology . --- Lasers. --- Photonics. --- New optics --- Optics --- Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation --- Masers, Optical --- Optical masers --- Light amplifiers --- Light sources --- Optoelectronic devices --- Nonlinear optics --- Optical parametric oscillators --- Aquatic biology

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A new discipline of hydrogeophysics has evolved, aimed at improved simultaneous use of geophysical and hydrogeological measurements for hydrogeological investigations. By combining measurements made from hydrologic instruments with geophysical methods, accurate subsurface characterization and monitoring can be achieved, with high temporal and spatial resolution over a range of spatial scales. This helps to estimate parameters and monitor processes that are important to hydrological studies, such as those associated with water resources, contaminant transport, ecological and climate investigations. This book covers the fundamentals of the discipline from both the hydrogeological and geophysical perspectives, provides guidelines for application of different approaches and methods, and includes extensive examples of hydrogeophysical applications through case studies. Thirty five authors from nine countries, who are leaders in their respective areas, contributed to Hydrogeophysics. The book is intended to provide an introduction to new researchers to the field, to be used as a resource for researchers already active in the field, and to serve as a springboard for advances in the field that are needed to improve our understanding and management of the earth’s shallow subsurface.

Hydrogeology --- Geophysics --- Hydraulic engineering. --- Physical geography. --- Environmental pollution. --- Hydrogeology. --- Hydrology/Water Resources. --- Geophysics/Geodesy. --- Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. --- Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution. --- Chemical pollution --- Chemicals --- Contamination of environment --- Environmental pollution --- Pollution --- Contamination (Technology) --- Asbestos abatement --- Bioremediation --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental quality --- Factory and trade waste --- Hazardous waste site remediation --- Hazardous wastes --- In situ remediation --- Lead abatement --- Pollutants --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Geography --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Engineering --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- Environmental aspects --- Hydrology. --- Geophysics. --- Remote sensing. --- Water pollution. --- Aquatic pollution --- Fresh water --- Fresh water pollution --- Freshwater pollution --- Inland water pollution --- Lake pollution --- Lakes --- Reservoirs --- River pollution --- Rivers --- Stream pollution --- Water contamination --- Water pollutants --- Water pollution --- Waste disposal in rivers, lakes, etc. --- Remote-sensing imagery --- Remote sensing systems --- Remote terrain sensing --- Sensing, Remote --- Terrain sensing, Remote --- Aerial photogrammetry --- Aerospace telemetry --- Detectors --- Space optics --- Geological physics --- Terrestrial physics --- Earth sciences --- Physics --- Aquatic sciences --- Hydrography --- Water --- Geohydrology --- Geology --- Hydrology --- Groundwater

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This book covers a unique combination of scientific research and the practical demand for subsidence monitoring techniques focused on the satellite radar interferometry technique (InSAR). It covers the topic in a generic way: both precision and reliability of InSAR as a measurement technique, and the estimation of earth surface deformation in the presence of multiple deformation causes are addressed. It provides a review of existing subsidence estimation methodologies using geodetic measurements, explains Persistent Scatterer InSAR (PSI), and proposes a new method for reliability assessment: multi-track datum connection. The presented methodologies are demonstrated for the entire northern part of the Netherlands and a part of Germany (covering ~15.000 km2), using multi-track SAR observations from ESA’s ERS and Envisat satellites. The capability of PSI for wide-scale monitoring of subsidence rates of several millimeters per year in a rural area (which implies a low PS density) is shown. Additionally, methodologies for a better discrimination of the deformation signal of interest, subsidence due to hydrocarbon production, are assessed. Essential for operational use, the performance of PSI with respect to the leveling technique is quantified. It is shown that the high spatial and temporal observation density of PSI moreover contributes to the understanding of subsurface processes. For example, subsidence due to gas extraction and subsequent uplift due to underground gas storage is clearly detected. Audience: This book will be of interest to scientists and professionals in geodesy and geophysics working with Radar Interferometry, studying displacements, subsidence, earthquakes, or volcanoes.

geofysica --- geografie --- Geophysics --- Geodesy. Cartography --- radars --- geophysics --- fotogrammetrie --- Geology. Earth sciences --- Subsidences (Earth movements) --- Space interferometry. --- Imaging systems in geophysics. --- Interférométrie stellaire optique --- Imagerie en géophysique --- Remote sensing. --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVECOLO LIVTERRE SPRINGER-B --- Imaging systems in geophysics --- Space interferometry --- Land subsidences --- Earth movements --- Astrophysics --- Interferometry --- Geophysical imaging systems --- Geophysical instruments --- Remote sensing --- Signal processing. --- Image processing. --- Speech processing systems. --- Geophysics. --- Geotechnical engineering. --- Signal, Image and Speech Processing. --- Geophysics/Geodesy. --- Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. --- Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. --- Remote-sensing imagery --- Remote sensing systems --- Remote terrain sensing --- Sensing, Remote --- Terrain sensing, Remote --- Aerial photogrammetry --- Aerospace telemetry --- Detectors --- Space optics --- Engineering, Geotechnical --- Geotechnics --- Geotechnology --- Engineering geology --- Geological physics --- Terrestrial physics --- Earth sciences --- Physics --- Computational linguistics --- Electronic systems --- Information theory --- Modulation theory --- Oral communication --- Speech --- Telecommunication --- Singing voice synthesizers --- Pictorial data processing --- Picture processing --- Processing, Image --- Imaging systems --- Optical data processing --- Processing, Signal --- Information measurement --- Signal theory (Telecommunication) --- Subsidences (Earth movements) - Remote sensing

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This book reports on developments in Proximal Soil Sensing (PSS) and high resolution digital soil mapping. PSS has become a multidisciplinary area of study that aims to develop field-based techniques for collecting information on the soil from close by, or within, the soil. Amongst others, PSS involves the use of optical, geophysical, electrochemical, mathematical and statistical methods. This volume, suitable for undergraduate course material and postgraduate research, brings together ideas and examples from those developing and using proximal sensors and high resolution digital soil maps for applications such as precision agriculture, soil contamination, archaeology, peri-urban design and high land-value applications, where there is a particular need for high spatial resolution information. The book in particular covers soil sensor sampling, proximal soil sensor development and use, sensor calibrations, prediction methods for large data sets, applications of proximal soil sensing, and high-resolution digital soil mapping. Key themes: soil sensor sampling – soil sensor calibrations – spatial prediction methods – reflectance spectroscopy – electromagnetic induction and electrical resistivity – radar and gamma radiometrics – multi-sensor platforms – high resolution digital soil mapping - applications Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel is a scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) of Australia. Alex McBratney is Pro-Dean and Professor of Soil Science in the Faculty of Agriculture Food & Natural Resources at the University of Sydney in Australia. Budiman Minasny is a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Agriculture Food & Natural Resources at the University of Sydney in Australia.

Environment. --- Soil Science & Conservation. --- Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. --- Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. --- Geophysics/Geodesy. --- Environmental sciences. --- Physical geography. --- Remote sensing. --- Geographical information systems. --- Soil conservation. --- Sciences de l'environnement --- Géographie physique --- Télédétection --- Systèmes d'information --- Sols --- Noms géographiques --- Conservation --- Soils --- Digital soil mapping --- Remote sensing --- Propriété physicochimique du sol --- soil chemicophysical properties --- Relevé (des données) --- surveying --- Capteur --- Sensors --- Traitement d'images --- Image processing --- Spectrométrie --- Spectrometry --- Radar --- Système d'information géographique --- Geographical information systems --- Méthode statistique --- Statistical methods --- Digital soil mapping. --- Environmental Sciences and Forestry. Soil Science --- Soil Science (General) --- Agriculture -- Remote sensing. --- Soils -- Remote sensing. --- Agriculture - General --- Ecology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Agriculture --- Soil Science (General). --- Predictive soil mapping --- Earth (Soils) --- Mold, Vegetable --- Mould, Vegetable --- Soil --- Vegetable mold --- Earth sciences. --- Sedimentology. --- Geophysics. --- Soil science. --- Earth Sciences. --- Soil mapping --- Agricultural resources --- Plant growing media --- Regolith --- Land capability for agriculture --- Conservation of soil --- Erosion control, Soil --- Soil erosion --- Soil erosion control --- Agricultural conservation --- Soil management --- GIS (Information systems) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Petrology --- Geography --- Control --- Prevention --- Geological physics --- Terrestrial physics --- Earth sciences --- Physics --- Remote-sensing imagery --- Remote sensing systems --- Remote terrain sensing --- Sensing, Remote --- Terrain sensing, Remote --- Aerial photogrammetry --- Aerospace telemetry --- Detectors --- Space optics --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Soils - Remote sensing

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Flood damages are increasing as a result of frequent occurrence of large floods in many parts of the world, existing and continuing encroachment of development onto flood plains and aging flood protection structures. Under such circumstances, there is an ongoing search for better ways of protecting human life, land, property and the environment by improved flood management. Many flood management measures have been practiced in various jurisdictions, including living with floods, non-structural measures (e.g., regulations, flood defence by flood forecasting and warning, evacuations, and flood insurance), and structural measures (e.g., land drainage modifications, reservoirs, dykes and polders). Such flood management is difficult in river basins controlled by a single authority, and becomes even more challenging when dealing with transboundary floods, which may originate in one country or jurisdiction and then propagate downstream to another country, or jurisdiction. Under such circumstances, the demands on communications, information and data sharing, compatibility of forecasting methodologies, and close collaboration in all aspects of flood management are particularly strong and important. These issues are addressed in the edited proceedings of this NATO Advanced Research Workshop.

milieutechnologie --- Computer. Automation --- informatica --- milieubeleid --- Geodesy. Cartography --- Physical geography --- geologie --- fysische geografie --- fotogrammetrie --- Geology. Earth sciences --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Flood control --- Floodplain management --- Inondations --- Plaines inondables --- Congresses. --- Congresses --- Maîtrise --- Congrès --- Gestion --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVECOLO LIVTERRE SPRINGER-B --- Hydraulic engineering. --- Physical geography. --- Environmental management. --- Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics. --- Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. --- Physical Geography. --- Environmental Management. --- Monitoring/Environmental Analysis. --- Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Geography --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Engineering --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- Engineering geology. --- Engineering—Geology. --- Foundations. --- Hydraulics. --- Geotechnical engineering. --- Environmental monitoring. --- Remote sensing. --- Remote-sensing imagery --- Remote sensing systems --- Remote terrain sensing --- Sensing, Remote --- Terrain sensing, Remote --- Aerial photogrammetry --- Aerospace telemetry --- Detectors --- Space optics --- Biomonitoring (Ecology) --- Ecological monitoring --- Environmental quality --- Monitoring, Environmental --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Pollution --- Engineering, Geotechnical --- Geotechnics --- Geotechnology --- Engineering geology --- Architecture --- Building --- Structural engineering --- Underground construction --- Caissons --- Earthwork --- Masonry --- Soil consolidation --- Soil mechanics --- Walls --- Civil engineering --- Geology, Economic --- Flow of water --- Water --- Hydraulic engineering --- Jets --- Measurement --- Monitoring --- Details --- Geology --- Flow --- Distribution