Ocean Remote Sensing with Synthetic Aperture Radar

The ocean covers approximately 71% of the Earths surface 90% of the biosphere and contains 97% of Earths water. The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) can image the ocean surface in all weather conditions and day or night. SAR remote sensing on ocean and coastal monitoring has become a research hotspot in geoscience and remote sensing. This book--Progress in SAR Oceanography--provides an update of the current state of the science on ocean remote sensing with SAR. Overall the book presents a variety of marine applications such as oceanic surface and internal waves wind bathymetry oil spill coastline and intertidal zone classification ship and other man-made objects detection as well as remotely sensed data assimilation. The book is aimed at a wide audience ranging from graduate students university teachers and working scientists to policy makers and managers. Efforts have been made to highlight general principles as well as the state-of-the-art technologies in the field of SAR Oceanography.