Satellite Monitoring of Inland and Coastal Water Quality Retrospection Introspection Future Directions 1st Edition by Robert Bukata ISBN 9781420037616 1420037617

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ISBN 10: 1420037617
ISBN 13: 9781420037616
Author: Robert Bukata

Satellite Monitoring of Inland and Coastal Water Quality Retrospection Introspection Future Directions 1st Edition Table of contents:

Navel gazing at remote sensing of inland and coastal waters from space

1.1 Environmental monitoring from space

1.2 The remote sensing definition of water quality

1.3 The plight of remotely monitoring case 2 water quality

1.4 The irony of remote sensing

1.5 End-users of aquatic remote sensing products

1.5.1 The remote sensing scientific community

1.5.2 The nonremote sensing scientific community

1.5.3 The private sector community

1.5.4 The decision- and policy-making communities

1.6 Aquatic remote sensing products

1.7 What went wrong with the great potential?

1.7.1 The technology is inadequate

1.7.2 The science is inadequate

1.7.3 The applications are inadequate or nonexistent

1.7.4 The communication of potential, results, and products is inadequate

1.7.5 No official set of standards for remote sensing products exists

1.7.6 The costs are too high for the deliverables

1.7.7 Remote sensing of the Earth from space is generally suspect

1.7.8 Societal and organizational barriers exist

1.8 Models, models, models, models

1.9 The inevitable compromise of aquatic remote sensing

1.10 Some concluding comments

chapter two

Remote sensing of inland water quality: a science primer

2.1 Remotely sensing the Earth from space

2.2 Remotely sensing aquatic color from space

2.3 Remotely sensing inland and coastal water quality from space

2.4 The scientific methodology (forward and inverse models)

2.5 Concluding remarks

chapter three

The science of remotely sensing case 2 water quality

3.1 Aquatic optics and water color

3.2 Case 1 and case 2 waters

3.3 Inherent optical properties (optical cross section spectra)

3.4 Forward and inverse optical modeling

3.5 Trans-spectral processes

3.6 Remote sensing reflectance

3.7 The status of remote sensing science

chapter four

Applications of water quality products to environmental monitoring

4.1 What do environmental end-users want?

4.2 What do environmental end-users need?

4.2.1 Wildlife/biodiversity

4.2.2 Aquatic ecosystems (freshwater and marine ecosystems)

4.2.3 Impacts of atmospheric change

4.2.4 Impacts of land use

4.2.5 Impacts of highly populated areas

4.2.6 Impacts of pesticides and toxic substances

4.2.7 Impacts of resource exploitation

4.2.8 Impacts of exotic species

4.2.9 Impacts of biotechnology

4.2.10 Cumulative impacts

4.2.11 A summary of what environmental end-users might need

4.3 What can environmental end-users be given?

4.4 Benefits of incorporating remote estimates of water quality into environmental monitoring protoc

chapter five

Inland and coastal (case 2) water quality products

5.1 Providers and users: a marketplace reality check

5.2 Applications of inland and coastal water color products

5.3 Mapping water clarity

5.4 Mapping chlorophyll concentrations (and primary production) of mid-oceanic (case 1) waters

5.5 Mapping chlorophyll concentrations (and primary production) of optically complex inland and coas

5.6 Monitoring the extent and progress of blue-green algae blooms and red tides

5.7 Delineating the presence of inorganic turbidity in inland and coastal waters

5.8 Monitoring the extent and progress of marine and inland oil spills

5.9 Delineating the regional groundwater discharge, recharge, and transition areas (and temporal cha

5.10 Monitoring inland and coastal water quantity

5.11 Recording natural and anthropogenic changes in shoreline/coastal features

5.12 Recording changing configurations of continental ecozones

5.13 Seagrass meadows: location and spatial distribution of substrate and substrate vegetation

5.14 A lost opportunity to present an environmental manager with a compromise between science and us

5.15 Some comments on water quality monitoring

chapter six

Crystal-ball gazing at remote sensing of inland and coastal waters from space

6.1 The United States, Canada, and space

6.2 Addressing the chasm between Canadian inland and coastal water quality products and their potent

6.3 EOADP and GRIP

6.4 The compact airborne spectrographic imager (CASI)

6.5 Directions taken at CSIRO

6.6 Suspended sediments recognized as independent CPAs?

6.7 Back to the future with red wavelengths?

chapter seven

Truth in advertising of remote sensing products

7.1 Environmental science and the vagaries of populism

7.2 Three examples of controversial environmental issues

7.2.1 Climate change (a.k.a. global warming)

7.2.2 Depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer, and the ensuing environmental havoc

7.2.3 Attacks on aquaculture practices as being detrimental to wild fish populations

7.2.4 Subsection summary

7.3 Quality science emergent from fear-instilling rhetoric

7.4 Ground-level ultraviolet radiation and natural waters

7.5 Environmental monitoring from space and controversy

Acronyms

Glossary

References

Index

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