Current Topics in Remote Sensing Volume 1 - Institute of Earth Systems

Satellite Remote Sensing for Hydrology and Water Management

The Mediterranean Coasts and Islands

(Current Topics in Remote Sensing Volume 1)

Edited by Eric C Barrett, Clare H Power and Anton Micallef

xiii + 322 pages. 1990.

ISBN: 2-88124-732-6

Publisher: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers

During the 1980s, interest in satellite remote sensing moved away from pure science and individual case studies towards purely operational applications. At the same time, the micro-computer revolution ensured that data reception and processing facilities were no longer the preserve of a small number of global centres, but became common-place installations in smaller countries and even local regional agency offices and laboratories.

As remote sensing matured, and its applications proliferated, a new type of treatment was required to ensure both that decision-makers, managers and engineers with problems to solve were informed of the available opportunities, and that scientists were provided with integrated overviews of the ever-growing need for their services.

This book, published in 1990, was written by a specially selected group of leading experts and addressed those needs by uniquely focusing on the area bounded by satellite remote sensing, pure and applied hydrological sciences, and a specific world region, namely the Mediterranean basin.

18 May 2013
http://www.um.edu.mt/ies/publications/remotesensing1