last update: 25 May 2005

 Special Interest Group

 Remote Sensing of the Coastal Zone

 

Workshop Programme

Porto, Portugal, 9-11 June 2005

University of Porto, Department of Applied Mathematics, Rua do Campo Alegre, 687

THURSDAY 9 June 2005

 8:30-  9:00   Registration

 9:00-  9:10   Workshop Opening      Room A

 9:10-10:30   RADAR & OPTICAL MAPPING      Oral Session, Room A      Chairman: Robin Vaughan

Optical remote sensing in support of water quality monitoring in the southern North Sea

S J Dury, J H M Hakvoort & R W L Jordans, Rijkswaterstaat, AGI, Delft, The Netherlands

Potential of using Remote Sensing Techniques for Wadden Sea Monitoring

Kerstin Stelzer, Brockmann Consult, Geesthacht, Germany

Radar imaging mechanism of marine sand waves at very low grazing angle illumination

Ingo Hennings & Dagmar Herbers, Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften an der Universität Kiel (IFM-GEOMAR), Kiel, Germany

Small scale sea surface current features observed by X band radar

Nicole Braun, Friedwart Ziemer, Gottfried Schymura & Marius Cysewski, GKSS Research Centre, Institute for Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany

10:30-11:00  Coffee

11:00-12:30  LIDAR      Oral Session, Room A      Chairmen: Antonio Palucci & Alexander Dudelzak

Locating water pollution and shore discharges in the coastal zone and inland waters by FLS lidar

Sergey Babichenko, Jüri Lapimaa, Alexei Lisin, Larisa Poryvkina, AS Laser Diagnostic Instruments, Tallinn, Estonia

Alexander Vorobiev, Laser Diagnostic Instruments International Inc., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Detection and mapping of oil slicks in the sea by combined use of hyperspectral imagery and laser induced fluorescence

Marc Lennon, N. Thomas & V. Mariette, SAS ActiMar, Brest, France

Sergey Babichenko, AS Laser Diagnostic Instruments, Tallinn, Estonia. G. Mercier, GET- ENST Bretagne, Brest, France

Remote and in situ bio-optical determinations during the 2002-03 Italian oceanographic campaign in Western Ross Sea

Antonio Palucci, Roberta Fantoni & Luca Fiorani, ENEA, Frascati, Italy

Lidar calibrated satellite sensed CDOM in the Southern Ocean

Luca Fiorani, Roberta Fantoni & Antonio Palucci, ENEA, Frascati, Italy

Luigi Lazzara & Ilaria Nardello, University of Florence, Italy. Igor G. Okladnikov, SCERT, Tomsk, Russia

Analytical challenges in remote identification of vegetation species and detection of plant stress

Alexander Dudelzak, Canadian Space Agency, Saint-Hubert, Québec, Canada

Sergey Babichenko, Larisa Poryvkina & Alexei Scherbakov, AS Laser Diagnostic Instruments, Tallinn, Estonia

12:30-14:00  Lunch

14:00-15:00  TUTORIAL      Joint EARSeL Symposium and Workshops Session
                          Building: Reitoria da Universitade do Porto, Rua D. Manuel II, 4050-345 Porto

MERIS Products - getting, understanding and using them for open oceans and coastal zone applications

Carsten Brockmann, Brockmann Consult, Geesthacht, Germany

15:15-16:15  KEYNOTE      Joint EARSeL Symposium and Workshops Session
                          Building: Reitoria da Universitade do Porto, Rua D. Manuel II, 4050-345 Porto

Tsunamis: Characteristics, early warning systems and information needs of relief response and post-recovery operations

Delilah H A Al Khudhairy, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC), Ispra, Italy

16:30-17:00  Coffee

17:00-17:30  POSTER ANNOUNCEMENT 1      Oral Session, Room A      Chairman: Rainer Reuter

                     RADAR & OPTICAL MAPPING

The application of A/SAR monitoring of tidal channel sand wave migration;
a case study applied to the Lister Tief

Mark Slater & Robin Vaughan, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland

Operational chlorophyll-a monitoring within the North Sea using integrated multi-temporal MODIS and SeaWiFS L2 imagery

Mark Slater & Robin Vaughan, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland

                     LIDAR

Calibration of LIF data by total spectral signatures in environmental applications

Sergey Babichenko, Larisa Poryvkina & Irina Jakovleva, AS Laser Diagnostic Instruments, Tallinn, Estonia

Algae diagnostics by matrix method of laser fluorimetry

Evgeny E. Ostroumov & Victor V. Fadeev, Moscow State University, Russia

Rainer Reuter, University of Oldenburg, Germany.

Investigation of variablilty of DOM fluorescence band in South Atlantic using neural network classification algorithms

Sergey A. Burikov, Tatiana A. Dolenko, Victor V. Fadeev, I.I.Vlasov, Moscow State University, Russia

Use of airborne lidar for research in fisheries oceanography

Vladimir Zabavnikov, Knipovich Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO), Murmansk, Russia

Laser fluorosensor for oil spill detection – FLUOSENSE

Vidas Gulbinas, Institute of Physics, Vilnius, Lithuania

Uwe Joost, TriOS Optical Sensors, Oldenburg, Germany

Zenonas Kuprionis, Ekspla Ltd., Vilnius, Lithuania

Franck Ponthenier, EFS, Lyon, France

Rainer Reuter, Maria Manuela Reyes Reyes & Rainer Westphal, University of Oldenburg, Germany

                     SURFACE SLICKS

Laboratory studies of surface fluxes at slick edges

Martin Gade & Philipp Lange Institut für Meereskunde, Universität Hamburg, Germany

Stanislav Ermakov, Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Radar backscattering of the sea surface covered with oil films

Marina I Mityagina and Anton Churyumov, Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

On the distinction between SAR signatures of oceanic and atmospheric internal waves

José C B da Silva, Ana C S  Sutcliffe & Carlos Camara, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Measuring a coastal wave climate with satellite altimetry

David K Woolf, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK

                     COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT

Automated oil spill detection with shipborne radar

Nasser Mostafa Saleh, Maadi, Cairo, Egypt

Water qualıty investıgatıon using remote sensIng and GIS techniques of the Istinye inlet on the Bosphorus

Berna Tandac, H Gonca Coscun, Istanbul Technical University, Civil Engineering Faculty, Remote Sensing Division, Maslak/Istanbul, Turkey

Complex monitoring of coastal zones in the Black, Caspian and Baltic Seas

Andrey Kostianoy, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Imaging spectroscopy and Integrated Coastal Zone Management, a promising marriage

Bart Deronde, Sindy Sterckx & Walter Debruyn, Remote Sensing and Earth Observation Processes, Flemish Institute of Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium

A Landsat TM and ETM+ survey of quaternary coastal landforms in the central coast of NSW, Australia

Julia Yagüe, Pilar García & Eugenia Pérez, Complutense University of Madrid, Department of Regional Geographical Analysis and Physical Geography, Madrid, Spain

17:30-18:30  POSTER SESSION 1    Room P

18:30-20:00  ICEBREAKER PARTY   Building: Circulo Universitario, Rua do Campo Alegre, 877, 4150-180 Porto

FRIDAY 10 June 2005

 8:30-10:00   SURFACE SLICKS 1      Oral Session, Room A      Chairmen: P Gudmandsen & M Gade

SIMP: Slicks as Indicators of Marine Processes, Novel Tools for Marine Remote Sensing of the Coastal Zone

Martin Gade, Institut für Meereskunde, Universität Hamburg, Germany

Stanislav Ermakov, Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Olga Yu Lavrova, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Leonid M Mitnik, V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute FEB RAS, Vladivostok, Russia

José C B da Silva, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal

David K Woolf, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK

Satellite and in situ observations of slicks in the Douro river plume

Stanislav Ermakov, Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

José C B da Silva, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Slicks and oil spills monitoring in Black sea using spaceborne SAR
and aerial photography

Konstantin T Litovchenko, Russian Institute of Space Device Engineering, Moscow, Russia

Olga Yu Lavrova, Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia

Analysis of the polarizing video images of the sea surface

Oleg G Konstantinov, V. I. Il‘ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Vladivostok, Russia

Field studies of film slicks in shear currents

Stanislav Ermakov, Irina A Sergievskaya, Yury B Shchegolkov, Lev Gushin & Eugeny V Makarov, Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia

10:00-10:30  POSTER ANNOUNCEMENT 2      Oral session, Room A      Chairman: Vittorio Barale

                     COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT (cont.)

Suspended matter flux between East Frisian tidal flats and open sea: comparison of MERIS images and numerical modelling

Gerold Brink-Spalink, Emil Stanev & Jörg-Olaf Wolff, University of Oldenburg, ICBM, Germany

Nina Gemein & Rainer Reuter, University of Oldenburg, Institute of Physics, Germany

Monitoring subsidence in the continuous permafrost zone with InSAR and active layer modeling, Mackenzie Delta, Canada

Brian Moorman, Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Fluorescence monitoring of structure of water masses in the coastal zone of the North Sea using neural network classification algorithms

Tatiana A Dolenko, Sergey A. Burikov & Irina V. Fadeeva, Physical Department, Moscow State University, Russia

Rainer Reuter, University of Oldenburg, Institute of Physics, Germany

Using of the aircraft laboratory ARKTIKA for research in the Barents Sea coastal zone

Vladimir Zabavnikov, Knipovich Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO), Murmansk, Russia

MOSES, a measuring system for the observation of sea surfaces: Lagrangian drift experiments in the east Frisian Wadden Sea

Oliver Puncken, Thomas Badewien & Rainer Reuter, Universität Oldenburg, Institut für Physik, Germany

Emil Stanev, Universität Oldenburg, ICBM, Germany

Gelbstoff in the East Frisian Wadden Sea

Andrea Lübben, Thomas Badewien Nina Gemein, Oliver Puncken and Rainer Reuter, University of Oldenburg, Institute of Physics, Germany

Olaf Dellwig & Sibylle Kölsch, University of Oldenburg, ICBM, Germany

Sandra Koch, FH Oldenburg/Ostfriesland/Wilhelmshaven, Emden, Germany

Observing and mapping the coastline relief in the Romanian sector of the Black Sea using satellite images

V Loghin & G Muratoreanu, Universitatea Valahia, Targoviste, Romania

TideSed: Intertidal Sediment Characterization using HyMAP Imagery

Stefanie Adam, I Vitse & J Monbaliu, Laboratory for Hydraulics, Department of Civil Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium

A De Backer, S Degraer & M Vinckx, Marine Biology Section, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Belgium

B De Ronde & S Sterckx, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium

R Forster, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Center for Estuarine and Marine Ecology (NIOO-CEME), Yerseke, The Netherlands

C Johannsen, Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, W.Lafayette, IN

K Sabbe, Laboratory of Protistology and Aquatic Ecology, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Belgium

                     COASTAL HABITAT

Fusion of digital photography and lidar intensity: towards improved identification
of vegetal targets in the coastal zone

Jacques Populus, Ahmed Kamal Keraoui & Jacques-Edouard Levasseur, Ifremer, Plouzané, France

Marc Lennon, SAS ActiMar, Brest, France

Nyangou (South west Gabon in Central Africa) land cover characterisation using remote sensing techniques

Dieudonne Muoketou & Marcin Sobczak, Remote Sensing Laboratory of Environment, Warsaw, Poland

The advantages of pan-sharpening in coral reef research

Tony Vanderstraete & Rudi Goossens, Ghent University, Belgium

Tharwat K Ghabour, National Research Centre, Soils and Water Use Department, Gizah, Cairo, Egypt

                     OCEAN COLOUR

Atmospheric ground-truth measurements in the marine boundary layer over coastal areas

Tymon Zielinski, Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland

Bringfried Pflug & Birgit Gerasch, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Remote Sensing Technology Institute, Wessling, Germany

The search for exceptional water reflectance spectra

Helmut Schiller, GKSS Research Centre, Geesthacht, Germany

Variability of the inherent and apparent optical properties in a highly turbid coastal area: Impact for the validation of remote sensing algorithms

Rosa Astoreca, Véronique Rousseau, Jean-Yves Parent Christiane Lancelot, Ecologie des Systèmes Aquatiques (ESA), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Kevin Ruddick & Barbara Van Mol, Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models (MUMM), Brussels, Belgium

Distribution and flux of suspended matter in the Wadden Sea investigated
with optical in situ and remote sensing methods

Nina Gemein, Thomas Badewien, Andrea Lübben & Rainer Reuter, Universität Oldenburg, Institut für Physik, Germany

Olaf Dellwig & Hans-Jürgen Brumsack, Universität Oldenburg, ICBM, Germany

Quantitative detecting of cyanobacteria during blooms conditions

Tiit Kutser & Liisa Metsamaa, Estonian Marine Institute, Tallinn, Estonia

Niklas Strömbeck, Department of Limnology, University of Uppsala, Sweden

Application of the Landsat TM/ETM+ data for turbid (Case-II) waters around the Korean peninsula: atmospheric correction and suspended sediment retrieval algorithm

Ryu Joo-Hyung, P Shanmugam & Ahn Yu-Hwan, Satellite Ocean Research Lab., KORDI, Seoul, Korea

10:30-11:30  Coffee & POSTER SESSION 2    Room P

11:30-12:30  PLENARY DISCUSSION    Room A

Coastal zone monitoring - a fundamental GMES component

Chairmen: Huw Hopkins (ESA) & Scientific Committee

12:30-14:00  Lunch

14:00-15:30  EXERCISES & TRAINING      Rooms CR1 and CR2       Parallel Sessions

BEAM I: Basics of BEAM/VISAT Software for analysing MERIS data

Kerstin Stelzer, Brockmann Consult, Geesthacht, Germany

BEAM II: Ortho-rectification, cross instrument analysis, Level 3 product generation, and other advanced techniques using the BEAM toolbox

Carsten Brockmann, Brockmann Consult, Geesthacht, Germany

15:30-16:00  Coffee

16:00-18:00  COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT    Oral Session, A    Chairmen: P Gudmandsen & J Populus

Object-Oriented Beach Morphology Extraction from Video Images

Susanne Quartel and Elisabeth A. Addink, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Quantification of the Total Suspended Matter concentration in the sea breaking zone from in situ measurements and remotely sensed data - two empirical approaches

Anna C Teodoro, André R S Marçal & F Veloso-Gomes, University of Porto, Portugal

Assessment of land-cover changes related to shrimp farming in two districts of northern Vietnam using multitemporal Landsat data

Pham Thi Thanh Hien, Martin Béland, Ferdinand Bonn  & Kalifa Goïta, Centre d’Applications et de Recherche en Télédétection (CARTEL), Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

Pham Van Cu, Center for Remote Sensing and Geomatics (VTGEO), Institute of Geology, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam

Spring infrared image interpretation in the NW Portuguese shelf

Paulo B. Oliveira & A. Miguel P. Santos, IPIMAR, Lisboa, Portugal

José C B da Silva, IO-FCUL, Lisboa, Portugal

A multispectral remote sensing analysis of the Danube Delta and the North-Western coastal zone of the Black Sea

Maria Zoran, National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics, Remote Sensing Department, Bucharest, Romania

Liviu Florin Zoran, University Politechnica of Bucharest, Romania

Analysis of the Portuguese west coast morphology and Mmrphodynamics based on aerial images and GIS tools

Joaquim L Pais-Barbosa, Fernando F M Veloso-Gomes & Francisco de Almeida Taveira-Pinto, Porto University, Hydraulics and Water Resources Institute – IHRH, Porto, Portugal

19:00-22:00  WORKSHOP DINNER

Restaurant Praia da Luz, Av. Brasil, Porto

SATURDAY 11 June 2005

 8:30 -10:30  COASTAL HABITAT      Oral Session, Room A      Chairmen: F Cauneau & J Populus

The Interreg NW Mesh project: Mapping European Seabed Habitats

Jacques Populus & Brigitte Guillaumont, Ifremer, Plouzané, France

Mapping coastal aquaculture and fisheries structures by satellite imaging radar

Carlo Travaglia, Environment and Natural Resources Service, FAO Sustainable Development Department, Rome, Italy

Giuliana Profeti, Firenze, Italy; Josè Aguilar-Manjarrez, Inland Water Resources and Aquaculture Service, FAO Fisheries Department, Roma, Italy

Nelson Lopez, Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Quezon City, Philippines

Using lidar survey and satellite imagery for predictive modelling of coastal habitats. A case for seaweed in Brittany (France)

Eric De Oliveira & Jacques Populus, Ifremer, Plouzané, France

Mapping benthic habitat in coastal waters of the Baltic Sea

Tiit Kutser, Ele Vahtmäe & Georg Martin, Estonian Marine Institute, Tallinn, Estonia

Mapping of small-scale intertidal macrophyte communities at the island of Helgoland (North Sea) using hyperspectral remote sensing images (ROSIS data)

Inka Bartsch & Chris Cogan, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

Sabine Thiemann, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Remote Sensing Technology Institute, Wessling, Germany

Benjamin Hennig, University of Cologne, Geographical Institute, Köln, Germany

Mapping of submerged aquatic vegetation using hyperspectral airborne data and a physically based process chain

Thomas Heege & Sabine Miksa, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, D-82230 Weßling, Germany

Nicole Pinnel, Technical University of Munich, Limnological Station, D-82393 Iffeldorf, Germany

Viatcheslav Kisselev, Institute for Informatics and Automation of the RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia 199178

Peter Hausknecht, HyVista Corporation, N. Ryde, 2113, NSW, Australia

Mapping shallow, benthic communities using optical, remotely sensed data: A test of habitat classification accuracy using multiple sources of bathymetry

Patrick Gagnon, William Jones & Herbert Ripley, Hyperspectral Data International, Halifax, NS, Canada

Robert Scheibling, Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Bruce Hatcher, University College of Cape Breton, Sydney, NS, Canada

10:30-11:00  Coffee

11:00-12:30  EXERCISES & TRAINING     Room CR1

Interactive tutorial: The REVAMP North Sea Atlas

Hans van der Woerd, IVM, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

11:00-12:30  SURFACE SLICKS 2      Oral Session, Room A       Chairmen: M Gade & S Babichenko

Satellite radar imagery of the coastal zone: slicks and oil spills

Olga Yu Lavrova, Marina I Mityagina and Tatiana Bocharova, Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Envisat ASAR polarization experiments in the Peter the Great Bay, Japan Sea: Preliminary results

Leonid M Mitnik, Vyacheslav A Dubina and Oleg G Konstantinov, V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute FEB RAS, Vladivostok, Russia

Synthetic Aperture Radar observations of internal solitary waves in the southern Bay of Biscay

Alberto Azevedo & José C B da Silva, Department of Physics and Institute of Oceanography, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Adrian L New, James Rennell Division for Ocean Circulation and Climate, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK

Can dual-frequency altimetry be used to identify surface slicks?

David K Woolf & Susanne Ufermann, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK

Investigation of structural properties of marine surface film manifestations on SAR images

Denis V Darkin, Leonid M Mitnik & Vyacheslav A Dubina, V. I. Il‘ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Vladivostok, Russia

12:30-14:00  Lunch

14:00-15:30  OCEAN COLOUR      Oral Session, Room A      Chairmen: H van der Woerd & R Reuter

Eutrophication mapping by MERIS: The REVAMP results

Hans van der Woerd, IVM, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; the REVAMP team (MUMM, PML, BC, GKSS, DMI, NIVA)

Tuning algorithms by water type for optical remote sensing: A case study in a tidally stirred shelf sea

Alex Cunningham and Agnes Dudek, University of Strathclyde, Physics Department, Glasgow, UK

Remote sensing of water quality in coastal zones on the example of MERIS data in the Baltic Sea

Andreas Neumann, Harald Krawczyk & Thomas Walzel, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF), Berlin, Germany

Erik Borg & Bernd Fichtelmann, German Aerospace Center (DLR), German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), Neustrelitz, Germany

Calibration of MODIS satellite images and chlorophyll-a mapping for the Baltic Sea

Seppo Kaitala, Jukka Seppälä & Pasi Ylöstalo, Finnish Institute of Marine Research, Helsinki, Finland

Satellite observations of bio-optical indicators related to dinoflagellates blooms in selected Mediterranean coastal regions

Vittorio Barale & Frédéric Mélin, Joint Research Centre of the EC, Ispra, Italy

Antonella Lugliè & Nicola Sechi, Dipartimento di Botanica ed Ecologia Vegetale, Università di Sassari, Italy

Maria Grazia Giacobbe, Istituto per l’Ambiente Marino Costiero, CNR, Messina, Italy

Mercedes Masó & Magda Vila, Institut de Ciències del Mar, Barcelona, Spain

15:30            Coffee &

15:30-16:00  PLENARY & CLOSING SESSION      Room A