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 Special Interest Group

 Remote Sensing of the Coastal Zone

 

Programme, Abstracts and Publications of the 3rd Workshop

From Inland to Marine Waters

in the framework of the 27th EARSeL Symposium

Bolzano, Italy, 7-9 June 2007

European Academy Bozen/Bolzano, EURAC Convention Center
Viale Druso 1, I-39100 Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

THURSDAY 7 June 2007

   8:30- 9:00  REGISTRATION

   9:00- 9:10  WORKSHOP OPENING                    Room: Conference Hall

  9:10-10:30  COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT  Oral Session, Conference Hall       Chairman: Robin Vaughan

Operational water quality services and requirements of EU Directives

Carsten Brockmann, Brockmann Consult, Geesthacht, Germany

Protection of Marine Parks in the Dutch marine Extended Economic Zone

Hans J van der Woerd, Marieke A Eleveld, Steef W M Peters & Roy Brouwer, IVM Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Remote sensing support to ICZM and conservation of coastal habitats in western Crete

Emil Ivanov & Ioannis Manakos, MAICH, Chania, Greece; Wim van der Knaap, Wageningen University, The Netherlands; Ioannis Vogiatzakis, University of Reading, U.K.

Coastal WIKI: State of the art on field observation techniques for ICZM in Europe

Monique Villars, Delft Hydraulics, Delft, The Netherlands; Clivia Häse, GKSS Research Centre, Geesthacht, Germany; Andrew J. Chadwick, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK; Job Dronkers, RIKZ, The Hague, The Netherlands

10:30-11:00  Coffee

11:00-12:30  TUTORIAL                                            Conference Hall
A joint EARSeL Symposium and Workshops Session

Remote Sensing of the invisible: What we know about the atmosphere and how we know it

Robert L de Zafra, State University of New York at Stony Brook, U.S.A.

12:30-14:00  Lunch

14:00-15:30  KEYNOTES                                          Conference Hall                     Chairman: Eberhard Parlow
A joint EARSeL Symposium and Workshops Session

Towards assimilation of ocean colour satellite observation into coastal ocean biogeochemical models

Vittorio Brando, CSIRO Land & Water, Canberra, Australia

The oceans and the Earth climate

Rainer Reuter, University of Oldenburg, Germany
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GMES and EARSeL: Some preliminary thoughts

Gérard Begni, CNES, Toulouse, France

Tools and techniques for the analysis of time-series data

Keith McCloy, University of Aarhus, Denmark

16:00-16:30  Coffee

16:30-18:30  OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND METHODS  Oral Session, Conference Hall     Chairman: Vittorio Barale

Fluorescence of dissolved and colloidal fractions of natural organic matter

Olga M Gorshkova, Anton S Milukov, Svetlana Patsayeva, Elena Prashikova & Viktor I Yuzhakov, Moscow State University, Russia

First measurement of size, refractive index, depolarization and fluorescence of phytoplankton cells by laser scanning flow cytometry

Roberta Fantoni, Luca Fiorani, Antonella Lai, Antonio Palucci, Maria Sighicelli & Peter Tarasov, ENEA, Frascati, Italy
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Empirical relationships between particle beam attenuation coefficient, bacteria abundance and production in marine waters

Martin A Montes & Maria Vernet, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, USA; Hugh Ducklow, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, USA
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Physically based data processing of multi- and hyperspectral remote sensing data

Thomas Heege, Viacheslav Kiselev & Jörg Heblinski, EOMAP GmbH, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; Sabine Miksa, Nicole Pinnel, Peter Hausknecht & Halina Kobryn

Diffuse attenuation of light in tropical coastal and estuarine waters: A semi-analytical approach for Fitzroy Estuary and Keppel Bay, Australia

Nagur RC Cherukuru, Vittorio E Brando, David Blondeau-Patissier & Arnold G Dekker, Land & Water, Canberra, Australia

19:00-21:00  ICEBREAKER

FRIDAY 8 June 2007

   8:30- 9:30  POSTER ANNOUNCEMENT           Oral Session, Conference Hall       Chairman: Rainer Reuter

                     COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT

Valuation of shoreline fluctuations and vegetation status in the northeast Caspian coastal zone using Terra/MODIS imagery

Nadiya R Muratova, Space Research Institute, Almaty, Kazakhstan; Nurgul Amanova, Svetlana Severskaya, Alexei Terekhov & Nataliya Tsychuyeva

Impact of aerosol physical properties on remote sensing of coastal areas
Tymon Zielinski & Tomasz Petelski, Institute of Oceanology PAS, Sopot, Poland; Agnieszka Ponczkowska, Krzysztof Markowicz, Joanna Remiszewska, Giorgos Chourdakis, Nikos Mihalopoulos & Bringfried Pflug

                     OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND METHODS

Absorption of natural plankton

Mark A van Dijk, Herman J Gons & Hans L Hoogveld, NIOO-KNAW, Maarsen, The Netherlands

Non-destructive optical characterisation of several pure cultures of microscopic fungi and algae grown in different ecologic conditions

Vera Terekhova, Elena Bandolina, Anna Menshenina, Svetlana Patsayeva, Ekaterina Srebnyak, Tatiana Semenova & Viktor Yuzhakov, Moscow State University, Russia

Construction of a spectral library of submerged vegetation in the Venice Lagoon

Frederica Braga, Jvan Barbaro & Luigi Alberotanza, CNR-ISMAR, Venezia, Italy

Seawater dual fluorescence analysis during the Arctic transect of the Summer 2006 Polish oceanographic campaign

Francesco Colao, Luca Fiorani, Violeta Lazic & Antonio Palucci, ENEA, Frascati, Italy; Violetta Drozdowska & Igor G Okladnikov, Institute of Oceanology PAS, Warsaw, Poland
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Groundwater fluorescence analysis in Southern Italian regions affected by desertification processes

Luca Fiorani, Antonio Palucci & Dimitra Rapti-Caputo, ENEA, Frascati, Italy

Comparison of different methods to estimate suspended particles in turbid coastal waters

Thomas Badewien & Rainer Reuter, University of Oldenburg, Germany; Mirko Lunau, Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany; Christian Winter, University of Bremen, Germany

                     LIDAR

Laser remote sensing for Danube River pollution analysis

Gabriela Pavelescu, Georgeta-Jeni N Vasilescu, Dan Savastru, Livio Belegante, Emil Carstea, Camelia Talianu, Doina Nicolae, Claudia Strechie, Laura Jugaru, Sergey Shchemelyov, National Institute of Research and Development for Optoelectronics (INOE), Magurele, Romania; Sergey Babichenko & Alexey Lisin, LDI Ltd., Tallinn, Estonia

Dissolved organic matter and chlorophyll measurements in the Black Sea Romanian coastal zone

Gabriela Pavelescu, Georgeta-Jeni N Vasilescu, E Pfeiffer, L Belegante, E Carstea & C Strechie, National Institute of Research and Development for Optoelectronics (INOE), Magurele, Romania; Sergey Babichenko & Alexey Lisin, LDI Ltd., Tallinn, Estonia

                     REFLECTANCE

Image processing of MODIS data on Mediterranean Sea for a comparison with in situ measurements of biophysical parameters

Angelo Cau, Francesco Dessi, Alberto Marini, Maria Theresa Melis, Matteo Murenu & Andrea Ortu, University of Cagliari, Italy
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Multispectral IR and Visible Spectrometer (MIVIS) data to assess optical properties in shallow waters

Claudia Giardino, Gabriele Candiani & Mariano Bresciani, CNR-IREA, Milano, Italy; Marco Bartoli & Luca Pellegrini, University of Parma, Italy
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Suspended matter measured with airborne remote sensing and satellite images in the East Frisian Wadden Sea

Christina Mehrtens, Thomas Badewien & Rainer Reuter, Institute of Physics, University of Oldenburg, Germany
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Comparison of sediment transport modelling with hyperspectral airborne data analysis for the retrieval of sediment concentration

Els Knaeps, Sindy Sterckx & Rik Houthuys, VITO, Brugge, Belgium; Mark Bollen & Koen Trouw, IMDC, Antwerp, Belgium
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Remote Sensing and data model integration for assessing SPM transport in the Dutch coastal zone

Monique Villars, Meinte Blaas, Ghada Y. H. El Serafy & Thijs van Kessel, Hydraulics, Delft, The Netherlands; Marieke Eleveld, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Remote sensing techniques for macrophytes and water compound concentrations mapping

Rosa Maria Cavalli, Stefano Pignatti & Federico Santini, CNR-IIA, Rende, Italy; Giovanni Laneve, University of Rome 1, Italy
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Ocean Colour (SeaWiFS) investigations of Lake Baikal’s surface waters (Siberia) within a paleoclimate research network

Birgit Heim, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg; Susanne Fietz, University of Essex, Colchester, UK; Vera Straskrabova, Hydrobiological Institute, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic; Hedi Oberhaensli, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany

Progress in the parameterisation of an automised processing chain for MERIS data of Swiss lakes

Daniel Odermatt, Jens Nieke, Martin Kneubühler & Klaus Itten, RSL, Univerity of Zurich, Switzerland
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                     MULTISENSOR APPLICATIONS

Oil spill remote sensing from airborne maritime surveillance platforms

Nils Robbe, Theo Hengstermann & Dieter Mach, Optimare Sensorsysteme AG, Bremerhaven, Germany

Use of Ferrybox and above-water radiometric measurements for coastal water monitoring and remote sensing product validation

Seppo J Kaitala & Jukka Seppälä, Finnish Institute of Marine Research, Helsinki, Finland; Giuseppe Zibordi, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
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                     DATA AND INFORMATION

Application of NASA Giovanni to coastal zone remote sensing research

James Acker, Gregory Leptoukh, Steven Kempler, Stephen Berrick, Hualan Rui & Suhung Shen, NASA Goddard Earth Sciences DISC, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
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An integrated GPS receiver for remote sensing sea state and land cover

Lie-Chung Shen, Jyh-Ching Juang, Ching-Liang Tseng & Ching-Lang Tsai, National Cheng kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Ping-Ya Ko, System Research Center, CSIST, Lon-Tan, Taiwan

                     RADAR

Revisiting fifteen years of satellite altimetry near the European coasts: the Alticore project

Andrej G Kostianoy, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia; Stefano Vignudelli, Helen Snaith, Paolo Cipollini, Fabio Venuti, Florent Lyard, Jean François Cretaux, Florence Birol, Jérôme Bouffard, Laurent Roblou, Anna Ginzburg, Nickolay Sheremet, Elena Kuzmina, Sergey Lebedev, Alexander Sirota, Dmitry Medvedev, Svetlana Khlebnikova, Ramiz Mamedov, Khasiyat Ismatova, Amir Alyev & Tural Nabiyev

Investigation of water masses distribution and zooplankton assemblage off the Northwest African coast using satellite altimetry data and in-situ observations
Alexander Sirota & Natalia Zhigalova, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia

  9:30-10:30  INTERACTIVE POSTER SESSION                                               Seminar Hallway

10:30-11:00  Coffee

11:00-12:30  COASTAL HABITAT                          Oral Session, Conference Hall       Chairman: Antonio Palucci

Mapping the shallow marine benthic habitats of Rottnest Islands, Western Australia

Matthew J Harvey, Halina T Kobryn & Lynnath E Beckley, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia; Thomas Heege & Peter P Hausknecht, EOMAP GmbH, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
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High resolution optical remote sensing for habitat mapping of the Amirantes Ridge, Seychelles: A Reefscape Ecology perspective

Sarah Hamylton, Cambridge Coastal Research Unit, Cambridge University, UK
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Saltmarsh habitat classification from satellite imagery

Fiona G Cawkwell, Ned Dwyer, Darius Bartlett, Iban Ameztoy, Brian O'Connor & Liz O'Dea, University College Cork, Ireland; Jeremy Hills, Envision, Horsley, Northumberland, UK; Alan Brown, CCW, Bangor, UK; Nigel Cross, Lancaster, UK; Matt O'Donnell, British National Space Centre, London, UK; Ian Thomas, EOCI, Woking, Surrey, UK
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On the processing of field spectroradiometric data for remote sensing mapping of submerged vegetation in coastal zones and lagoon environments
Antonino Maltese, Vincenzo Pampalone & Giuseppe Ciraolo, University of Palermo, Italy; Tim Malthus & Evanthia Karpouzli, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, UK

12:30-14:00  Lunch

14:00-16:00  LAKE & COASTAL COLOUR 1       Oral Session, Conference Hall       Chairman: Hans van der Woerd

Recurrent versus anomalous blooming patterns in the coastal and pelagic regions of the Black Sea

Vittorio Barale, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
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Intercomparison of regional products of water quality processed from MERIS data

Kerstin Stelzer & Carsten Brockmann, Brockmann Consult, Geesthacht, Germany; Holger Klein, Kai Sørensen, Roland Doerffer & Michael Schaale

MERIS timeseries data to detect water quality in Subalpine lakes

Gabriele Candiani & Claudia Giardino, CNR -IREA, Milano, Italy; Vittorio E Brando, CSIRO Land & Water, Canberra, Australia; Marco Bartoli & Francesco Reverberi, University of Parma, Italy

A Noctiluca scintillans detection algorithm applied on MERIS imagery

Barbara Van Mol, YoungJe Park, Kevin Ruddick & Rosa Astoreca, Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models, Brussels, Belgium
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The use of ASTER images to map fluvial sediment discharge into northern Adriatic Sea

Frederica Braga, Jvan Barbaro & Luigi Alberotanza, CNR-ISMAR, Venezia, Italy

14:00-15:00  POLLUTION                                         Oral Session, Seminar 6       Chairman: Sergey Babichenko

Analysis of satellite data for the production of thematic maps of marine pollution

Margherita Fiani & Pasquale Pistillo, Università di Salerno, Italy

Combined use of SAR and VIS/NIR imagery in sunglint condition for detecting and tracking oil slicks

Maria Adamo, Giacomo De Carolis, Vito de Pasquale & Guido Pasquariello, CNR – ISSIA, Bari, Italy

An investigation of industrial solid waste pollution in marine environment using remote sensing in Zonguldak coasts, Turkey

Yilmaz Yildirim, Murat Oruc & Murat Ihsan Komurcu, Karaelmas University, Turkey

15:00-16:00  LIDAR                                                    Oral Session, Seminar 6       Chairman: Antonio Pallucci

Diagnostics of oil pollution in iced water with airborne LIF lidar

Sergey Babichenko, Alexey Lisin, Larisa Poryvkina, Sergei Scshemelyev & Irina Jakovleva-Richter, LDI Ltd., Tallinn, Estonia

Intercomparison and lidar-calibration of ocean colour satellite radiometers in the Southern Ocean

Luca Fiorani , Antonio Palucci & Igor Okladnikov, ENEA, Frascati, Italy

Key developments for a Brillouin lidar for remote sensing of oceanic temperature profiles

Alexandru Popescu, Kai Schorstein, Gerrit Scheich, Ingo Maßmann, Peer Fietzek & Thomas Walther, Institute of Applied Physics, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany; Edward S. Fry, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
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16:00-16:30  Coffee

16:30-17:10  LAKE & COASTAL COLOUR 2       Oral Session, Room Conference Hall        Chairman: Carsten Brockmann

Mapping water quality at the lake Buyukcekmece, Istanbul, by using IKONOS multispectral imagery

Berk Üstün, Semih Ekercin, Fatih Döker & Cihat Baspehlivan, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Comparative methods for the extraction of coastal areas from VHR images

Valerio Baiocchi, University "La Sapienza" Rome, Italy; Keti Lelo, University of Rome 3, Italy; Donatella Dominici  & Filippo Del Guzzo, University of L’Aquila, Italy
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17:10-18:30  RADAR                                                 Oral Session, Room Conference Hall        Chairman: Martin Gade

The expected potential of TerraSAR-X high resolution spot light mode data for shallow sea bottom topographic imaging

Ingo Hennings & Dagmar Herbers, IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany

Wind field, sea state and currents in the coastal zone by TerraSAR-X

Susanne Lehner, Johannes Schulz-Stellenfleth & Stephan Brusch, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Application of satellite altimetry for study of the Euphrat-Tigris river system

Alexei Kouraev, Elena Zakharova, Igor Polikarpov, Faiza Al-Yamani & Jean-Francois Cretaux, LEGOS, CNRS, Toulouse, France

20:00-22:00  WORKSHOP DINNER

SATURDAY 9 June 2007

            7:00  Departure by bus to the Garda Lake

  9:00-10:30  MULTISENSOR METHODS             Oral Session, Sirmione Municipality            Chairman: Claudia Giardino

Calculating sea surface current fields using multi-sensor satellite data

Martin Gade, Gerald Fiedler & Leonie Dreschler-Fischer, University of Hamburg, Germany

Morphodynamics of the Belgian shoreline studied with airborne LIDAR and hyperspectral remote sensing

Bart Deronde & Rik Houthuys, Vito, Mol, Belgium; Jean-Pierre Henriet & Vera Van Lancker, Ghent University, Belgium

Lake Baikal ice regime: application of radar altimetry and radiometry

Alexei Kouraev,  Sergei V. Semovski, Michail N. Shimaraev, Nelly M. Mognard, Benoit Legresy & Frederique Remy, LEGOS,  CNES, France

Cross-frontal water exchange produced by upwelling filaments

Andrey G Kostianoy & Dmitry Soloviev, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia
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10:30-12:50  EXERCISES AND TRAINING SESSION ONBOARD SHIP

The programme of experiments will be announced on-site

          12:50  Arrival at the Biological Station Sirmione                                       

12:50-13:00  CLOSING SESSION

13:00-14:00  Lunch

14:30-17:00  Bus transfer to Bolzano via Verona Airport