Satellite Monitoring of Inland and Coastal Water Quality: Retrospection, Introspection, Future Directions

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ISBN: 9780849333569 | 0849333563
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/26/2005

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Satellite Monitoring of Inland and Coastal Water Quality: Retrospection, Introspection, Future Directions reviews how aquatic optics models convert remote determinations of water color into accurate assessments of water quality. This book illustrates how this conversion generates products of value for the environmental monitoring of optically complex inland and coastal waters. The author emphasizes how terrestrial, aquatic, and wetland remote sensing are underutilized tools due to a lack of influential end-usership. He reviews this disinterest and examines why it exists, how it can be abated, and the synergies that need to be activated among technologists, scientists, entrepreneurs, policy-makers, and water quality professionals.

Chapter 1 Navel gazing at remote sensing of inland and coastal waters from space

(36)

1.1 Environmental monitoring from space

(1)

1.2 The remote sensing definition of water quality

(3)

1.3 The plight of remotely monitoring case 2 water quality

(1)

1.4 The irony of remote sensing

(2)

1.5 End-users of aquatic remote sensing products

(2)

1.5.1 The remote sensing scientific community

(1)

1.5.2 The nonremote sensing scientific community

(1)

1.5.3 The private sector community

(1)

1.5.4 The decision- and policy-making communities

(1)

1.6 Aquatic remote sensing products

(3)

1.7 What went wrong with the great potential?

(14)

1.7.1 The technology is inadequate

(1)

1.7.2 The science is inadequate

(1)

1.7.3 The applications are inadequate or nonexistent

(1)

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

(1)

1.7.5 No official set of standards for remote sensing products exists

(1)

1.7.6 The costs are too high for the deliverables

(2)

1.7.7 Remote sensing of the Earth from space is generally suspect

(4)

1.7.8 Societal and organizational barriers exist

(1)

1.8 Models, models, models, models

(2)

1.9 The inevitable compromise of aquatic remote sensing

(4)

1.10 Some concluding comments

(3)

Chapter 2 Remote sensing of inland water quality: a science primer

(16)

2.1 Remotely sensing the Earth from space

(2)

2.2 Remotely sensing aquatic color from space

(1)

2.3 Remotely sensing inland and coastal water quality from space

(3)

2.4 The scientific methodology (forward and inverse models)

(4)

2.5 Concluding remarks

(5)

Chapter 3 The science of remotely sensing case 2 water quality

(28)

3.1 Aquatic optics and water color

(5)

3.2 Case 1 and case 2 waters

(1)

3.3 Inherent optical properties (optical cross section spectra)

(2)

3.4 Forward and inverse optical modeling

(4)

3.5 Trans-spectral processes

(7)

3.6 Remote sensing reflectance

(2)

3.7 The status of remote sensing science

(6)

Chapter 4 Applications of water quality products to environmental monitoring

(30)

4.1 What do environmental end-users want?

(4)

4.2 What do environmental end-users need?

(19)

4.2.1 Wildlife/biodiversity

(2)

4.2.2 Aquatic ecosystems (freshwater and marine ecosystems)

(2)

4.2.3 Impacts of atmospheric change

(5)

4.2.4 Impacts of land use

(2)

4.2.5 Impacts of highly populated areas

(1)

4.2.6 Impacts of pesticides and toxic substances

(1)

4.2.7 Impacts of resource exploitation

(1)

4.2.8 Impacts of exotic species

100

(1)

4.2.9 Impacts of biotechnology

101

(1)

4.2.10 Cumulative impacts

101

(1)

4.2.11 A summary of what environmental end-users might need

102

(3)

4.3 What can environmental end-users be given?

105

(2)

4.4 Benefits of incorporating remote estimates of water quality into environmental monitoring protocols: value-added remote sensing

107

(4)

Chapter 5 Inland and coastal (case 2) water quality products

111

(54)

5.1 Providers and users: a marketplace reality check

112

(3)

5.2 Applications of inland and coastal water color products

115

(1)

5.3 Mapping water clarity

116

(3)

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

119

(3)

5.5 Mapping chlorophyll concentrations (and primary production) of optically complex inland and coastal (case 2) waters

122

(11)

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

133

(4)

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

137

(3)

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

140

(3)

5.9 Delineating the regional groundwater discharge, recharge, and transition areas (and temporal changes therein)

143

(3)

5.10 Monitoring inland and coastal water quantity

146

(3)

5.11 Recording natural and anthropogenic changes in shoreline /coastal features

149

(5)

5.12 Recording changing configurations of continental ecozones

154

(4)

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

158

(2)

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

160

(2)

5.15 Some comments on water quality monitoring

162

(3)

Chapter 6 Crystal-ball gazing at remote sensing of inland and coastal waters from space

165

(24)

6.1 The United States, Canada, and space

166

(5)

6.2 Addressing the chasm between Canadian inland and coastal water quality products and their potential end-users

171

(6)

6.3 EOADP and GRIP

177

(2)

6.4 The compact airborne spectrographic imager (CASI)

179

(2)

6.5 Directions taken at CSIRO

181

(1)

6.6 Suspended sediments recognized as independent CPAs?

182

(1)

6.7 Back to the future with red wavelengths?

183

(6)

Chapter 7 Truth in advertising of remote sensing products

189

(18)

7.1 Environmental science and the vagaries of populism

190

(2)

7.2 Three examples of controversial environmental issues

192

(6)

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

192

(2)

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

194

(2)

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

196

(1)

7.2.4 Subsection summary

197

(1)

7.3 Quality science emergent from fear-instilling rhetoric

198

(2)

7.4 Ground-level ultraviolet radiation and natural waters

200

(4)

7.5 Environmental monitoring from space and controversy

204

(3)

Acronyms

207

(4)

Glossary

211

(16)

References

227

(16)

Index

243

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Satellite Monitoring of Inland and Coastal Water Quality: Retrospection, Introspection, Future Directions

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