Colour of Inland and Coastal Waters

A Methodology for Its Interpretation

Dmitry Pozdnyakov and Hartmut Grassl

Colour of Inland and Coastal Waters is the first book to introduce vital issues concerned with the remote sensing of the quality and properties of optically complex inland and marine coastal waters.

Using a mixture of mathematics, hydrobiology, hydrochemistry, atmospheric optics and aquatic ecology, this book examines problems and their solutions found in this area of remote sensing. Throughout, emphasis is placed on quantification with the use of models of the processes involved. The book includes:

a comprehensive methodology of water colour interpretation
detailed information on how the properties of different water masses and their interaction with sunlight encompasses transspectral processes and optical impacts of sea\inland water bed reflectivity and wind-roughened surface through the air-water interface
descriptions of the mechanisms of sunlight interaction with the aquatic medium.

This comprehensive treatise will prove invaluable for students and researchers of remote sensing and marine science.

Table of contents:

Preface
Acknowledgements
About the authors
List of figures
List of tables
List of plates
1. Basic notions and relationships
2. Optical properties of non-Case I waters: hydro-optical models
3. Colour formation in natural waters: numerical simulations of the forward problem
4. Quantitative interpretation of satellite colour images over non-Case I waters: numerical simulations of the inverse problem
5. Retrieval of water quality distributions from SeaWiFS images over non-Case I waters
Outlook
References
Index

Extent: 170 pages
Binding: hardback
Publication Date: April 2003
ISBN: 978-3-540-00200-0

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