[PDF] Oceans From Space Proceedings Of A Symposium eBook

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Page : 265 pages
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Release : 2010
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The Extended Abstracts of the poster presentations delivered at the 4th "Oceans from Space" Symposium - held in Venice, Italy, on 26-30 April 2010 - address every facet of space sciences and technologies applied to marine and maritime issues. Missions, satellites, sensors, passive and active techniques, calibration and validation schemes, algorithms and models are covered. Applications range from the study of physical dynamical processes to that of biological and ecological status, from local to global scales. The results already achieved, or soon to come, demonstrate the potential of oceanographic remote sensing to explore the dynamical and bio-geo-chemical features of the World's Oceans.

Author : C.C. Mei
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 4431682848

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Ocean development has conventionally been targeted at the exploitation of natural resources, however this trend is gradually changing: Ocean space has itself come to be regarded as a precious resource. Since problems associated with energy, food supply, and population will become even more crucial over the coming years, ocean space is being reevaluated as a means for providing solutions in many of these areas. The future prosperity of mankind will to a large measure be dependent on the manner in which the resources of the oceans are utilized. To develop ocean space effectively, international cooperation is essential since a global perspective is paramount. It is on this basis of cooperation and communication that the present symposium was organized, bringing together experts from all over the world to report current findings in ocean development and to consider areas of future research. The material covered here deals with all aspects of these areas which are now of such of vital importance.

Author : J. F. Gower
Publisher : Springer
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 19,76 MB
Release : 2011-11-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461333173

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This volume is based on the proceedings of the COSPAR/SCOR/ IUCRM Symposium "Oceanography From Space" held in May 1980 in Venice, Italy. COSPAR (The Committee for Space Research) suggested holding a joint symposium with SCOR (The Scientific Committee for Oceanic Research) as a major review of space oceanography. Since this meeting fitted well with a series of colloquia organized by the IUCRM (The Inter-Union Commission on Radio Meteorology), these three bodies joined in sponsoring the meeting. The conference was hald 16 years after the first discussions of possible spaceborne observations of the ocean at a meeting organized in 1964 in Woods Hole. Gifford'Ewing was then keen to see oceanography benefit from the new satellite technology being developed, and he begins this volume by noting that most of the suggestions put forward in 1964 have now, at last, been successfully demonstrated in practice. The papers that follow show the variety of measurement techniques available or possible, and many of the types of studies in which they can be used. Papers are arranged in a general section, and in 6 specialized sections each of which starts with a brief introduction summarizing important results.