Microwave Remote Sensing for Oceanographic and Marine Weather-Forecast Models - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Microwave Remote Sensing for Oceanographic and Marine Weather-Forecast Models write by Robin A. Vaughan. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Microwave Remote Sensing for Oceanographic and Marine Weather-Forecast Models available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The power of microwave remote sensing for studying the oceans of the world was demonstrated conclusively by the SEASAT mission in 1978. Since then, no further satellite-flown instruments have been available to provide further data of this type. However, the proposed launch of ESA's ERS-1 satellite will lead to a new set of active microwave instruments being flown in space in 1990. Even though similar data has been obtained from aircraft-flown instruments SAR, scatterometers, altimeters etc. - a great deal of activity has been taking place to develop the necessary expertise in handling and analysing such data when it comes on-stream from ERS-1 and from subsequent satellites. It was against this background that the scientific Affairs Division of NATO again agreed to sponsor an ASI in Dundee in 1988. Its purpose was to review existing knowledge of the extraction of marine and atmospheric geophysical parameters from satellite-gathered microwave data and to enable scientists to prepare themselves and their computing systems to utilise the new data when it becomes available. The importance of the data is largely as input parameters to assist in the fitting of boundary conditions in large computer models. The course was concerned more with the non-imaging instruments, that is with passive radiometers, altimeters and scatterometers, than with the (imaging) synthetic aperture radar.
Microwave Remote Sensing for Oceanographic and Marine Weather-Forecast Models
Microwave Remote Sensing for Oceanographic and Marine Weather-Forecast Models - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Microwave Remote Sensing for Oceanographic and Marine Weather-Forecast Models write by Robin A. Vaughan. This book was released on 2014-01-15. Microwave Remote Sensing for Oceanographic and Marine Weather-Forecast Models available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Remote Sensing of Atmosphere and Ocean from Space: Models, Instruments and Techniques
Remote Sensing of Atmosphere and Ocean from Space: Models, Instruments and Techniques - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remote Sensing of Atmosphere and Ocean from Space: Models, Instruments and Techniques write by Frank S. Marzano. This book was released on 2006-04-11. Remote Sensing of Atmosphere and Ocean from Space: Models, Instruments and Techniques available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a collection of the lectures, held at the International Summer School ISSAOS-2000 in L'Aquila (Italy), given by invited lecturers coming from both Europe and the USA. The goal of the book is to provide a broad panorama of spaceborne remote sensing techniques, at both microwave and visible-infrared bands and by both active and passive sensors, for the retrieval of atmospheric and oceanic parameters. A significant emphasis is given to the physical modeling background, instrument potential and limitations, inversion methods and applications. Topics on international remote sensing programs and assimilation techniques into numerical weather forecast models are also touched. The main purpose of the book is to offer to young scientists, Ph.D. or equivalent students, and to all who would like to have a broad-spectrum understanding of spaceborne remote sensing capabilities, introductory material to each remote sensing topic written by the most qualified experts in the field.
Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Oceans
Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Oceans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Oceans write by Igor V. Cherny. This book was released on 1998-07-14. Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Oceans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Oceans Igor V. Cherny and Victor Yu. Raizer In Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Oceans, the detailed results of more than 20 years of experimental and theoretical investigations in the field of ocean remote sensing, utilising microwave radiometric techniques and multi-frequency aerospace instruments, are presented. Experimental results presented in this book to some extent contradict the traditional view that microwave radiometry and, in particular, millimetre-wave frequencies are not useful for remote sensing of oceans. The authors show that studies of the ocean and atmosphere as a coupled system, and of processes occurring at the ocean surface and in deep water, can be reliably evolved using compact passive radiometric sensors. They further demonstrate that for studies of global, large-scale and local processes in the ocean-atmosphere system, only the combination of microwave and optical techniques will reveal the spatial structure and dynamics of the ocean surface at scales from centimetres to several hundred metres. The text first introduces ocean surface phenomena, discussing the ocean-atmosphere interface, the classification of surface waves, the generation and statistics of wind waves, and wave-breaking and foaming processes. The microwave emission characteristics of the ocean surface are then described, and the influence of wind waves, bubble-foam-spray coverage, oil spills and sea ice are discussed. The instruments and methods used for passive microwave remote sensing of the oceans from both aircraft and from satellites are reviewed. Microwave observations of processes in the ocean-atmosphere system are then described in detail, incorporating a new approach for microwave diagnostics of deep-ocean processes. Examples presented include the Rossby soliton, frontal zone in the Kurosio region, influence of brief showers on the subsurface layer, and interaction of tropical cyclones with the ocean during their origin and subsequent trajectories over the ocean surface. Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate students studying remote sensing, marine science, oceanography, geography, geophysics, meteorology, climatology, atmospheric physics and environmental science. Professional oceanographers and those interested in oceanographic remote sensing processes and their applications, marine scientists and engineers, environmental scientists, and those studying the ocean-atmosphere system.
Remote Sensing Applications in Marine Science and Technology
Remote Sensing Applications in Marine Science and Technology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remote Sensing Applications in Marine Science and Technology write by A.P. Cracknell. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Remote Sensing Applications in Marine Science and Technology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This summer school was a sequel to the summer school on Remote Sensing in Meteorology, Oceanography and Hydrology which was held in Dundee in 1980 and the proceedings of which were published by Ellis Horwood Ltd., Chichester, England. At the present summer scnool we concentrated on only part of the subject area that was covered in 1980. Although there was some repetit ion of material that was presented in 1980, because by and large we had a new set of participants, most subjects were treated in considerably greater detail than had been possible previously. The major topics covered in the present summer school were (i) the general principles of remote sensing with particular reference to marine applications, (ii) applications to physical oceanography, (iii) marine resources applications and (iv) coastal monitoring and protection. The material contained in this volume represents the written texts of most of the lectures presented at the summer school. One important set of lecture notes was not available; this was for the lectures on active microwave techniques, principally synthetic aperture radar, by W. Alpers from Hamburg. For this material we would refer the reader to "Imaging Ocean Surface Waves by Synthetic Aperture Radar - A Review" by W. Alpers,which is to appear as chapter 6 in "Satellite Microwave Remote Sensing" edited by T.D. Allan (Ellis Horwood, Chichester) which is to be published in 1983.
