About the Book
Remote Sensing of Ocean and Coastal Environments advances the scientific understanding and application of technologies to address a variety of areas relating to sustainable development, including environmental systems analysis, environmental management, clean processes, green chemistry and green engineering. Through each contributed chapter, the book covers ocean remote sensing, ocean color monitoring, modeling biomass and the carbon of oceanic ecosystems, sea surface temperature (SST) and sea surface salinity, ocean monitoring for oil spills and pollutions, coastal erosion and accretion measurement.
This book is aimed at those with a common interest in oceanography techniques, sustainable development and other diverse backgrounds within earth and ocean science fields. This book is ideal for academicians, scientists, environmentalists, meteorologists, environmental consultants and computing experts working in the areas of earth and ocean sciences.
Table of Contents:
Section 1 Ocean and Coastal Environment - Definitions, Processes and Dynamics
1. Ocean Remote sensing: Platforms, Sensors, Instruments, Data Products, and Processing Tools
2. Remote Sensing for Ocean Dynamics - Algorithms, Models, Techniques, Applications
3. Remote sensing of Ocean water properties
4. Remote sensing of Ocean Surface and Atmospheric Parameters
5. Remote Sensing for Coastal Dynamics - Monitoring and Assessment
Section 2 Remote sensing of Ocean Dynamics Measurements
6. Satellite altimetry for wave height, shoaling and upwelling
7. Space borne Scatterometer measurement of wind, wind stress and current
8. Ocean color monitoring
9. Nutrient flux
10. Modeling Biomass and Carbon of Oceanic Ecosystems
11. Ocean Water Turbidity
12. Colored Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM)
13. Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and Sea surface salinity
14. Ocean Heat flux and Head budget
15. Fisheries and Phytoplankton (Chlorophyll-a) biomass
Section 3 Remote Sensing for Ocean and Coastal Environment and Ecosystems
16. Optical properties of coastal water
17. Suspended sediment concentration and transportation
18. Coastal Environment monitoring and assessment (offshore, nearshore and backshore)
19. Remote Sensing Techniques for Studying Coastal Ecosystems
20. Coastal Ecosystems, Habitat Protection, and management (estuaries, backwater, mangroves, salt marshes, tidal flats, wetlands)
21. Remote sensing for Wetland Dynamics
22. Biomass and Carbon of Coastal water Ecosystems
Section 4 Remote sensing for Ocean and Coastal Hazards and Vulnerability Management
23. Ocean monitoring for Oil Spills and Pollutions
24. Coastal erosion and accretion measurement
25. Shoreline change detection and assessment
26. Coastal Hazards: flooding, sea level rise and storm surges
27. Coastal vulnerability modelling of physical, environmental and habitats damages
28. Seawater intrusion and groundwater contamination
29. Coastal land use and land cover change impacts
Section 5 Remote sensing for Ocean and Coastal Management and Development
30. Climate change on Ocean and Coastal Environment
31. Ocean water pollution monitoring and assessment
32. Spatio-temporal change of Coastal Area management
33. Coastal Environment and Ecosystem conservation and management
34. Coastal degradation monitoring and assessment
35. Future challenges of Ocean and Coastal Management and Development
About the Author :
Dr. Meenu Rani received her MTech degree in remote sensing from the Birla Institute of
Technology, Ranchi, India. She is currently affiliated with the Department of Geography,
Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India. She has worked on remote-sensing
applications as a junior research fellow at the Haryana Space Applications Centre, as a
research associate on the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, and at the G.B. Pant
National Institute of Himalayan Environment and Sustainable Development. Dr. Rani
has authored and coauthored several peer-reviewed scientific research papers and
presented work at many national and international conferences, including in the United
States, Italy, and China. She has been awarded various fellowships from the International
Association for Ecology, Future Earth Coasts, and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic
Research Scientific Research Programme. She was awarded an Early Career Scientist
achievement in 2017 from Columbia University, New York, New York, USA. Dr. Kaliraj Seenipandi is a scientist at the Central Geomatics Laboratory, National
Centre for Earth Science Studies, Thiruvananthapuram. He received his MSc in remote
sensing and geoinformation technology with a first from Madurai Kamaraj University,
Madurai, and his MTech in geomatics from the Indian Institute of Surveying and
Mapping, Survey of India, Hyderabad. He was awarded the DST-INSPIRE Fellowship
(both JRF and SRF) for his PhD in remote sensingegeotechnology from the Centre for
GeoTechnology, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India.
He has specialized in remote sensing, geoinformatics, and GIS modeling of earth and
environmental processes. He has published over 30 research papers in the earth and
environment fields and more than 25 proceedings in national and international conferences.
He was awarded the Young Scientist of the Year 2016 award by the
International Foundation for Environment and Ecology, Kolkata, in association with the
Confederation of Indian Universities, New Delhi, and the Green Technologist of the Year
2017 award by the Scientific and Environmental Research Institute, New Delhi, in association
with the Indian Institute of Ecology and Environment, New Delhi. His research
interests are in the fields of remote sensing, geoinformatics, GIS modeling, earth and
environmental dynamics, coastal vulnerability assessment, and natural resource monitoring
and management. Ms. Sufia Rehman is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. She has completed her Bachelors in Geography and subsequently obtained her Master’s degree in Geography from Jamia Millia Islamia. She is a recipient of Gold medal in Master of Arts. She specialized in remote sensing and GIS and hydrological studies. Her area of interest includes coastal ecosystem conservation and management, climate change and disaster management. She has made a remarkable contribution in water related researches such as coastal landscape vulnerability and flood vulnerability. She has presented her research in national and international conferences. She has many research papers in Journals of International repute and book chapters to her credit. Ms. Rehman has been awarded many scholarships from various agencies. Dr. Pavan Kumar is a Faculty of College of Horticulture and Forestry, Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi, U.P., India. He obtained his Ph.D degrees from Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He did B.Sc. (Botany) and M.Sc. (Environmental Science) from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India and subsequently obtained Master’s degree in Remote Sensing (M.Tech) from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra Ranchi, India. His current research interests include Climate Change and coastal studies. He is recipient of Innovation China National academy award for Remote Sensing. Dr. Kumar has published fifty research papers in international journals and authored a number of books. He has visited countries like USA, France, the Netherlands, Italy, China, Indonesia, Brazil and Malaysia for various academic/scientific assignments, workshop and conferences. Dr. Kumar is member of International Associations for Vegetation Science, USA and Institution of Geospatial and Remote Sensing, Malaysia. Prof. Haroon Sajjad is Professor in the Department of Geography, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He obtained his B.Sc, M.Sc, M.Phil and Ph.D degrees all from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. His present research interests include environmental management, sustainable development, watershed management and applications of remote sensing and GIS. He has four books to his credit. He has published more than hundred research papers in journals of repute. Prof. Sajjad has presented fifty research papers at national and international conferences including at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, University of British Columbia, Canada, University of Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa, and University of Brighton, U.K. He has delivered invited talks at various universities. Ten doctoral degrees to the scholars have been awarded under his supervision. He has chaired academic sessions at various conferences. He is the reviewer of many scientific research journals and member of scientific bodies.
