Vittorio Barale / Martin Gade (eds.)

Remote Sensing of the European Seas

Herausgegeben:Barale, Vittorio; Gade, Martin

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Produktbeschreibung

Princess Enheduanna, daughter of king Sargon of Akkad, lived around 2300 BC. She was a high priestess of the moon god Nanna in the ancient city of Ur. And an accomplished poet too. In fact, she is the author of a number of Sumerian hymns, and is generally considered to be the earliest author known by name. When she came to honor Inanna - the goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare, daughter of Nanna and often associated with the planet Venus (the one that the Akkadians called Ishtar) - above all the other gods of the Sumerian pantheon, she mentioned for the very first time, in her Hymn number 8, nothing less than the "Seven Seas". . . Septem Maria, would call them the Romans centuries later, after inher- ing the concept from the Greeks (for whom seven probably just meant several), but perhaps applying it to the wrong place - i. e. the extensive system of coastal lagoons, which at the time dotted the northern Adriatic Sea - at least in the description of Pliny the Elder, Roman fleet commander and scholarly author of Historia Naturalis. Indeed, which seven seas are int- ded depends on the context. According to the historians, there are at least nine bodies of water in the medieval European and Arabic literature that can - pire to qualify as one of the famous seven.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 11782353
• 2008
• Seitenzahl: 540
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 912g
• ISBN-13: 9781402067716
• ISBN-10: 1402067712
• Artikelnr.: 23113944

Inhaltsangabe

to Remote Sensing of the European Seas.- The European Marginal and Enclosed Seas: An Overview.- Remote Sensing of the European Seas: A Historical Outlook.- Visible & Thermal Infrared Passive/Active Remote Sensing.- Ocean Colour Remote Sensing of the Optically Complex European Seas.- Case Studies of Optical Remote Sensing in the Barents Sea, Black Sea and Caspian Sea.- Variations in the Phytoplankton of the North-Eastern Atlantic Ocean: From the Irish Sea to the Bay of Biscay.- Optical Remote Sensing of the North Sea.- Optical Remote Sensing Applications in the Baltic Sea.- Open Waters Optical Remote Sensing of the Mediterranean Sea.- Optical Remote Sensing of Intertidal Flats.- Visible and Infrared Remote Sensing of the White Sea Bio-Geo-Chemistry and Hydrology.- Remote Sensing of Coastal Upwelling in the North-Eastern Atlantic Ocean.- On the Use of Thermal Images for Circulation Studies: Applications to the Eastern Mediterranean Basin.- Current Tracking in the Mediterranean Sea Using Thermal Satellite Imagery.- The Next Generation of Multi-Sensor Merged Sea Surface Temperature Data Sets for Europe.- Laser Remote Sensing of the European Marine Environment: LIF Technology and Applications.- Microwave Passive/Active Remote Sensing.- Microwave Radiometry and Radiometers for Ocean Applications.- Microwave Aperture Synthesis Radiometry: Paving the Path for Sea Surface Salinity Measurement from Space.- Sea Ice Parameters from Microwave Radiometry.- to Microwave Active Techniques and Backscatter Properties.- Scatterometer Applications in the European Seas.- Radar Altimetry: Introduction and Application to Air-Sea Interaction.- 15 Years of Altimetry at Various Scales over the Mediterranean.- Can we Reconstruct the 20th Century Sea Level Variability in the Mediterranean Sea on the Basis of Recent Altimetric Measurements?.- Internal Waves Generated in the Straits of Gibraltar and Messina: Observations from Space.- High Resolution Wind Field Retrieval from Synthetic Aperture Radar: North Sea Examples.- Satellite Imaging for Maritime Surveillance of the European Seas.- Oil Spill Detection in Northern European Waters: Approaches and Algorithms.- The Use of Satellite Imagery from Archives to Monitor Oil Spills in the Mediterranean Sea.- Sea Ice Monitoring in the Arctic and Baltic Sea Using SAR.- SAR Observation of Rip Currents off the Portuguese Coast.- Current Measurements in European Coastal Waters and Rivers by Along-Track InSAR.- Wave and Current Observations in European Waters by Ground-Based X-Band Radar.- Nautical Radar Measurements in Europe: Applications of WaMos II as a Sensor for Sea State, Current and Bathymetry.- Land-Based Over-the-Horizon Radar Techniques for Monitoring the North-East Atlantic Coastal Zone.- Multi-Sensor Techniques.- Multi-Sensor Observations of Meso-Scale Features in European Coastal Waters.- Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing of Coastal Discharge Plumes: A Mediterranean Test Site.- Sea Ice Monitoring in the European Arctic Seas Using a Multi-Sensor Approach.