This book will cover the fundamental principles of measuring oceans from space, but will contain state-of-the-art developments in data analysis and interpretation and in sensors. Completely new will be material covering advances in oceanography that have grown out of remote sensing, including some of the global applications of the data. The variety of applications of remotely sensed data to ocean science has grown significantly and new areas of science are emerging to exploit the gobal datasets being recovered by satellites, particularly in relation to climate and climate change, basin-scale, air-sea interaction processes (e.g. El Niño) and the modelling, forecasting and prediction of the ocean.
Preface
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Colour Plates
List of Abbreviations and Names of Satellites and Sensors
List of Symbols and Nomenclature
Part I. : Fundamentals of Satellite Oceanography
Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : Sensors for Observing the Ocean
Chapter 3 : Remote Sensing Systems
Chapter 4 : Space and Time Scales in Satellite Oceanography
Chapter 5 : Processing Satellite Data for Ocean Applications
Part II. : Ocean Remote Sensing Techniques
Chapter 6 : Ocean Colour Remote Sensing
Chapter 7 : Infrared (IR) Measurement of Sea Surface Temperature (SST)
Chapter 8 : Microwave Radiometry
Chapter 9 : Radars, Sea Surface Roughness, and Scatterometry
Chapter 10 : Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imaging of the Ocean
Chapter 11 : Radar Altimeters Over the Ocean
Chapter 12 : The Way Ahead
Index
