Overview
- Collection of invited lectures from the "Oceans from Space, Venice 2010" Symposium
- Unique group of authors, all top scientists in their field
- Complete and thorough review of Oceanographic Remote Sensing techniques
- Focus on the issues and special problems posed by the marine environment
- Ideal follow-up of the legendary "Oceanography from Space", J.F.R. Gower, 1980
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To all those sailors / Who dreamed before us / Of another way to sail the oceans. The dedication of this Volume is meant to recall, and honour, the bold pioneers of ocean exploration, ancient as well as modern. As a marine scientist, dealing with the oceans through the complex tools, ?lters and mechanisms of contemporary research, I have always wondered what it was like, in centuries past, to look at that vast ho- zon with the naked eye, not knowing what was ahead, and yet to sail on. I have tried to imagine what ancient sailors felt, when “the unknown swirls around and engulfs the mind”, as a forgotten author simply described the brave, perhaps reckless, act of facing such a hostile, menacing and yet fascinating adventure. Innovation has always been the key element, I think, for their success: another way, a better way, a more effective, safer and worthier way was the proper answer to the challenge. The map of our world has been changed time and again, from the geographical as well as the social, economic and scienti?c points of view, by the new discoveries of those sailors. One of the positive qualities of human beings is without doubt the inborn desire to expand their horizons, to see what lies beyond, to learn and understand.
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Oceanography from Space
Book Subtitle: Revisited
Editors: Vittorio Barale, J.F.R. Gower, L. Alberotanza
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8681-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8680-8Published: 06 May 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9018-6Published: 06 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8681-5Published: 26 April 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 374
Topics: Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Oceanography, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis