Remote Sensing of Coastal and Inland Waters
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 31444
Special Issue Editors
Interests: remote sensing; satellite altimetry; coastal and inland water altimetry; range and geophysical corrections; wet tropospheric correction; sea state bias
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Interests: remote sensing; satellite altimetry; coastal and inland water altimetry; range and geophysical corrections—wet tropospheric correction, climate variability, ocean circulation, and ecosystems from remote sensing
Interests: sea level change; climate change; ocean dynamics; coastal and inland water altimetry; improved altimeter processing and waveform retracking
Interests: geodesy; satellite positioning, navigation; remote sensing; altimetry; calibration/validation; data analysis; sea level change; metrology; statistical process control
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Remote sensing (RS) has revolutionized our understanding of sensitive regions such as coastal zones and inland waters which play a crucial role in human life as most world’s population concentrates on these regions. Amidst the various RS techniques, due to its all weather, day and night capability, satellite altimetry gained increasing importance over the last 26 years. While over the ocean satellite altimetry has long gained a stage of maturity, over regions of coastal zones and inland waters the success of satellite altimetry is even challenging as these measurements require tuned waveform retracking and corrections to the measured range. In spite of this, there is an increasing number of applications over coastal zones and inland waters using satellite altimetry alone or in combination with other remote sensing data (e.g., space-borne gravimetry, sea surface temperature and ocean colour), in situ data (e.g., tide gauges) and ocean, climate and hydrologic models.
Papers on all aspects related with coastal and inland waters studies that make use of remote sensing techniques, in particular satellite altimetry, in combination with in situ observations and models are welcome in this Special Issue.
Paper topics may include but are not limited to the following:
- Regional and coastal sea level change and monitoring;
- Coastal dynamics;
- Data processing techniques for improving satellite altimetry over coastal zones and inland waters, both for low resolution mode (LRM) and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) altimeters: waveform retracking, range and geophysical corrections
- Regional tide models;
- Remote Sensing products for applications over coastal zones and inland waters;
- Satellite altimetry calibration and validation with fiducial reference measurements;
- Coastal upwelling ecosystems change monitoring using Remote Sensing data synergy (e.g. space-borne gravimetry, sea surface temperature, ocean colour, imaging SAR), in particular from the Sentinel constellation
- River and lake water level monitoring;
- Regional studies over closed and semi-enclosed seas;
- Assimilation of Remote Sensing data into coastal dynamics, storm surge and hydrologic models;
- Innovative applications over coastal zones and inland waters.
Dr. Joana Fernandes
Dr. Clara Lázaro
Dr.-Ing habil. Luciana Fenoglio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Satellite altimetry
- Coastal sea level change
- Continental water storage
- Coastal zone management
- Shelf sea ecosystems
- Natural hazard management
- Data quality enhancement
- Data synergy
- Data assimilation
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