LEADER 05243nam 22006735 450 001 9910299556403321 005 20200701074257.0 010 $a94-017-8008-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-94-017-8008-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000121912 035 $a(EBL)1783742 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001274373 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11864742 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001274373 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11326046 035 $a(PQKB)11128795 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1783742 035 $a(DE-He213)978-94-017-8008-7 035 $a(PPN)179762605 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000121912 100 $a20140602d2014 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRemote Sensing of the African Seas /$fedited by Vittorio Barale, Martin Gade 205 $a1st ed. 2014. 210 1$aDordrecht :$cSpringer Netherlands :$cImprint: Springer,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (436 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-17504-7 311 $a94-017-8007-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aAtlantic Ocean - NW Africa -- Equatorial - SW Africa -- Southern Ocean - South Atlantic current / Circumpolar current interactions with - Agulhas current, retroflection, return current.- Indian Ocean - SE Africa -- South Equatorial current / East Africa Coastal current -- East Africa Coastal current / Somali current -- East Madagascar current -- Mozambique Channel current / eddies - Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea. 330 $aThe African Seas include marginal basins of two major oceans, the Atlantic and the Indian, a miniature ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and an infant ocean, the Red Sea. Understanding the wide spectrum of environmental features and processes of such a varied collection of marine and coastal regions requires that in situ observation systems be integrated and actually guided, by the application of orbital remote sensing techniques. This volume reviews the current potential of Earth Observations to help in the exploration of the marginal seas around Africa, by virtue of both passive and active techniques, working in several spectral ranges  ? i.e. measuring either reflected visible and near-infrared sunlight, as well as surface emissions in the thermal infrared and microwave spectral regions, or again the surface reflection of transmitted lidar or radar impulses of visible or microwave radiation. The in-depth evaluation of the advantages offered by each technique and spectral region and in particular by the development of advanced multi-technique systems, contributes to the assessment of the abundant natural resources that the Seas of Africa have to offer, of those in dear need of being ? sustainably ? exploited and of others that should be protected and maintained in their still pristine conditions. Vittorio Barale (right) graduated in Physics in 1977, from the University of Milan and then received both his M.S., in 1982 and Ph.D., in 1986, while at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, from the University of California at San Diego. Since 1990 he has been with the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. His research focuses on the ecological assessment of marginal and enclosed seas and their coastal margins in particular, using optical remote sensing.   Martin Gade (left) received his first degree in Physics in 1992 and then his doctoral degree in Geosciences in 1996, both from the University of Hamburg, Germany. Since 1991 he has been with the Remote Sensing Unit of the Institute of Oceanography, at the University of Hamburg. His research focuses on air-sea interactions and coastal processes and their remote sensing using active microwave techniques, as well as on laboratory and field experiments with marine surface films. 606 $aRemote sensing 606 $aOceanography 606 $aGeotechnical engineering 606 $aEnvironmental monitoring 606 $aRemote Sensing/Photogrammetry$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/J13010 606 $aOceanography$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G25005 606 $aGeotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G37010 606 $aMonitoring/Environmental Analysis$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/U1400X 615 0$aRemote sensing. 615 0$aOceanography. 615 0$aGeotechnical engineering. 615 0$aEnvironmental monitoring. 615 14$aRemote Sensing/Photogrammetry. 615 24$aOceanography. 615 24$aGeotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. 615 24$aMonitoring/Environmental Analysis. 676 $a551.460285 702 $aBarale$b Vittorio$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aGade$b Martin$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910299556403321 996 $aRemote Sensing of the African Seas$92543117 997 $aUNINA