Special Interest Group
    Remote Sensing of the Coastal Zone

    The website has moved to
    http://www.earsel.org/SIG/CZ/index.php

    You will be automatically forwarded to the new website after 5 seconds
    Please click on the link above if your browser does not support forwarding

    New: Presentations and papers from the 4th Workshop in Chania on the island of Crete, Greece, on 18-20 June 2009
    News from the Special Interest Group
    The Workshops in 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005 and 2007
    Conference Announcements
    Contact
    Mailing List
    Projects and Data
    Links

    Welcome to the Homepage of the Special Interest Group (SIG) Remote Sensing of the Coastal Zone.

    The SIG is a platform for information exchange among people interested in

    • the physical dynamics of currents, tides, waves and sediment transport,
    • the flux and transformation of chemical and biological seawater constituents including pollutants,
    • the relevance of physical conditions for biological and chemical processes,
    • morphodynamical processes and their relevance for coastal engineering,
    • the relevance of these factors for living conditions, tourism, shipping and economy

    and their investigation with Remote Sensing. This covers the microwave, visible and infrared spectral range, active and passive methods, algorithms for data interpretation, ground truth methods, and modelling of processes using parameters for starting conditions and output validation that can be remotely sensed.

    Membership in our hosting organisation, the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories is recommended but is not a prerequisite.

    Contact

      Rainer Reuter
      University of Oldenburg
      Institute of Physics
      Marine Physics Group
      26111 Oldenburg, Germany

      Phone: +49 (0)441 798 3522
      Fax: +49 (0)441 798 3340
      E-mail [where (at)=@]: rainer.reuter(at)uni-oldenburg.de

    Our Workshops

      4th EARSeL Workshop on Remote Sensing of the Coastal Zone: Coasts and Climate Conflicts (2009)
      including manuscripts and presentations, abstracts and programme.

      3rd EARSeL Workshop on Remote Sensing of the Coastal Zone: From Inland to Marine Waters (2007)
      including publications, abstracts and programme, general information, list of participants, and photo gallery.

      2nd EARSeL Workshop on Remote Sensing of the Coastal Zone (2005)
      including programme and general information, list of participants, workshop abstracts and photo gallery

      1st EARSeL Workshop on Remote Sensing of the Coastal Zone (2003)
      including programme and general information, list of participants, workshop abstracts and photo gallery; published in EARSeL eProceedings Vol. 3, No. 1-3, 2004

      4th EARSeL Workshop on Lidar Remote Sensing of Land and Sea (2000)
      including reviewed workshop papers for download, published in EARSeL eProceedings Vol. 1, 2001

      3rd EARSeL Workshop on Lidar Remote Sensing of Land and Sea (1997)
      including workshop abstracts

    News from the Special Interest Group

      (11 Nov 2009) The manuscripts and presentations from the 4th Workshop, 1-21 June 2009 in Chania, Crete (Greece), are published online.

    Links
      checked and working as of 17 July 2008

      Remote Sensing

      ESA Earth Observation Portal
      Access point for information and services from Earth Observation.

      Observing the Coastal Sea. An Atlas of Advanced Monitoring Techniques (12 MB pdf file)
      New developments within the MARCOPOLI Research Programme of the Helmholtz Research Centres GKSS, AWI and partners.
      LOICZ Reports and Studies No. 33.

      IOCCG
      International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group.

      ESA ENVISAT Toolboxes:

      • beam the basic Envisat Toolbox for (A)ATSR and MERIS
      • beat the basic Envisat Atmospheric Toolbox
      • best the basic Envisat SAR Toolbox

      REVAMP
      REgional VAlidation of MERIS chlorophyll Products in North Sea coastal waters.

      FAO Publications on Remote Sensing
      List of publications since 1998, mostly for download.

      SISCAL
      Satellite Information System for Coastal Areas and Lakes.

      Remote Sensing Handbook for Tropical Coastal Management
      Published by UNESCO, Paris, France, and DFID, London, UK.

      PEGASUS
      Policy Support for European Governments by Acquisition of Information from Satellite and UAV borne Sensors.

      EARSeL Educational Resources Website
      Collection of links to educational remote sensing websites.

      Marine Optics

      Worldwide Ocean Optics Database
      maintained at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

      Oceanography

      ICES
      International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

      GOOS
      Global Ocean Observing System

      UN Atlas of the Oceans
      An information system designed for use by policy makers who need to become familiar with ocean issues and by scientists, students and resource managers who need access to underlying data bases and approaches to sustainability.

      ESONET
      The European Seafloor Network

      GEOHAB Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms.

      Harmful Algal Blooms Observing System (HABSOS).
      Workshop Report, 67 p., 2000

      Sea Ice

      Canadian Ice Service Archive (CISA)
      CISA is divided into three mayor sections: archive data, climatic products, and latest, past and future ice conditions

      Daily Updated AMSR-E Sea Ice Maps
      Sea ice concentrations calculated daily in near real time. The service is part of the GMES project Polar View and of the Arctic Regional Ocean Observing System (Arctic ROOS).
      Published by the Institute of Environmental Physics at the University of Bremen, Germany

      Polar science center Hydrographic Climatology (PHC)
      A Global Ocean Hydrography with a High Quality Arctic Ocean.
      Published by the Polar Science Center at the University of Washington, U.S.A.

      Handbook for Community-Based Sea Ice Monitoring (pdf file, 24 MB)
      Published by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder, CO, U.S.A.

      Coastal Waters, Coastal Zone Management

      Integrated Coastal Zone Management
      ICZM Website of the European Commission.

      Marine and Coastal Ecosystems & Human Well-being
      A UNEP publication based on the findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Project, June 2006.

      ENCORA Coastal Portal
      Website of the EU project ENCORA which offers services - including a Coastal Wiki - for enabling coastal professionals to take better advantage of existing knowledge resources in Europe.

      A Geospatial Framework for the Coastal Zone
      Published by the National Academies Press, Washington, DC, USA.

      Arctic GIS
      Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Geospatial Information Infrastructure (GII).
      Developed by the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States ARCUS.

      A Guide to Coastal Information in Atlantic Canada
      Website of the ACZISC - Atlantic Coastal Zone Information Steering Committee.

      Coastal Pollution

      CEDRE Centre of Documentation, Research and Experimentation on Accidental Water Pollution
      Brest, France

      Coastal Response Research Center
      at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA

      Oil Spill Recovery Institute
      Cordova, Alaska, USA

      The Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami, 26 December 2004

      European Space Agency ESA
      A year on from the Asian tsunami, satellites are aiding regional rebuilding.

      Earth Observatory
      Tectonic map of the region and location of epicenter.

      Space and Major Disasters
      Satellite maps and imagery.

      Spot Image
      Spot satellite images before and after tsunami.

      CRISP National University of Singapore
      Satellite imagery.

      Dartmouth Flood Observatory
      Observatory for extreme flood events worldwide.

      DLR Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information
      Satellite imagery.

      SERTIT, Strasbourg University
      Maps based on SPOT imagery and video flythru.

      NOAA
      Information bulletin on earthquake before arrival of tsunami.

      DRI, Japan
      Numerical model of tsunami in Sumatra waters.

      Wikipedia
      Encyclopedic information, links to other websites.

    Last update 11 Novemver 2009 - Please send comments to wwwadm