Modeling with Digital Ocean and Digital Coast

Modeling with Digital Ocean and Digital Coast
Author: Xin Zhang
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2016-09-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319427105

This book presents essential new insights in research and applications concerning spatial information technologies and coastal disaster prevention modeling for oceanic and coastal regions. As a new research domain of Digital Earth, it covers the latest scientific and technical advances, from the acquisition and integration of observational data, ocean spatio-temporal analysis and coastal flood forecasting to frequency modeling and the development of technical platforms. The individual chapters will be of interest to specialists in oceanic and coastal monitoring and management who deal with aspects of data integration, sharing, visualization, and spatio-temporal analysis from a Digital Earth perspective.

Remote Sensing and Modeling

Remote Sensing and Modeling
Author: Charles W. Finkl
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2014-09-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 331906326X

This book is geared for advanced level research in the general subject area of remote sensing and modeling as they apply to the coastal marine environment. The various chapters focus on the latest scientific and technical advances in the service of better understanding coastal marine environments for their care, conservation and management. Chapters specifically deal with advances in remote sensing coastal classifications, environmental monitoring, digital ocean technological advances, geophysical methods, geoacoustics, X-band radar, risk assessment models, GIS applications, real-time modeling systems, and spatial modeling. Readers will find this book useful because it summarizes applications of new research methods in one of the world’s most dynamic and complicated environments. Chapters in this book will be of interest to specialists in the coastal marine environment who deals with aspects of environmental monitoring and assessment via remote sensing techniques and numerical modeling.

Coastal Activities

Coastal Activities
Author: United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Publisher:
Total Pages: 8
Release: 1995
Genre: Coastal zone management
ISBN:

Estuaries and Coastal Zones

Estuaries and Coastal Zones
Author: Jiayi Pan
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2020-03-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1789855799

Estuaries and their surrounding wetland regions are among the most productive ecosystems in the world, with more than half of humanity inhabiting their shores. Anthropogenic factors make estuaries highly susceptible to ecosystem degradation. Coastal waters are closely connected with human activity, and their dynamic processes may greatly affect coastal environments. This book provides a compendium of studies on estuarine dynamics, river plumes, and coastal water dynamics, studies that have investigated the changes in estuarine and coastal zones in response to sea-level rise and other environmental factors, and policy and management strategies to ensure the health and economy of coastal zones. This book aims to display novel frontiers in these fields and may help to inspire in-depth studies in the future.

Tools for Oceanography and Ecosystemic Modeling

Tools for Oceanography and Ecosystemic Modeling
Author: André Monaco
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2016-07-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1119330246

Studying the Ocean Planet requires measuring and sampling instruments to feed models that take into account its complexity. This book presents the diversity of observation and monitoring techniques at various scales, but also different kinds of model that take into account some conceptual schemes incorporating various scientific knowledge. Sampling is approached via the efficiency of fishing gears; underwater acoustics is used to detect, count, identify and listen to live and mobile living resources. Bio-logging allows us to rely on the behavior of marine animals to help investigate environments that are difficult to sample by conventional means, while listing the physiological changes they undergo. Modeling is presented not only in a functional framework, but also in an exploratory design incorporating various scenarios for ecosystem changes under the pressure of global change. This ninth volume completes the "Seas and Oceans" Set that adopts a transversal approach leading to the governance and sustainable management of the marine environment.

Science & Technology in China: A Roadmap to 2050

Science & Technology in China: A Roadmap to 2050
Author:
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2009-09-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642048234

China’s modernization is viewed as a transformative revolution in the human history of modernization. As such, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) decided to give higher priority to the research on the science and technology (S&T) roadmap for priority areas in China’s modernization process. What is the purpose? And why is it? Is it a must? I think those are substantial and signifcant questions to start things forward. Significance of the Research on China’s S&T Roadmap to 2050 We are aware that the National Mid- and Long-term S&T Plan to 2020 has already been formed afer two years’ hard work by a panel of over 2000 experts and scholars brought together from all over China, chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao. Tis clearly shows that China has already had its S&T blueprint to 2020. Ten, why did CAS conduct this research on China’s S&T roadmap to 2050? In the summer of 2007 when CAS was working out its future strategic priorities for S&T development, it realized that some issues, such as energy, must be addressed with a long-term view. As a matter of fact, some strategic researches have been conducted, over the last 15 years, on energy, but mainly on how to best use of coal, how to best exploit both domestic and international oil and gas resources, and how to develop nuclear energy in a discreet way. Renewable energy was, of course, included but only as a supplementary energy.

Oil Spill Science and Technology

Oil Spill Science and Technology
Author: Mervin Fingas
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Total Pages: 1080
Release: 2016-11-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0128110961

Oil Spill Science and Technology, Second Edition, delivers a multi-contributed view on the entire chain of oil-spill related topics from oil properties and behaviors, to remote sensing through the management side of contingency planning and communicating oil spill risk perceptions. Completely new case studies are included with special attention to the Deepwater Horizon event, covering the impacts of wetlands and sand beaches, a mass balance approach, and the process for removing petroleum chemicals still trapped near Alabama beaches. Other new information on lingering oil left behind from the Exxon Valdez spill, the emergency system used in the Prestige incident, and coverage on the Heibei Spirit spill in Korea are also included. This updated edition combines technology with case studies to identify the current state of knowledge surrounding oil spills that will encourage additional areas of research that are left to uncover in this critical sector of the oil and gas industry. - Updated with new chapters on risk analysis and communication, contingency planning, restoration, and case studies - Supported with technological advances evolved from the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil tragedy and events in the Arctic/Antarctic - Multi-contributed from various industry experts to provide an extensive background in technical equipment and worldwide procedures used today

Coastal Water Clarity Modeling Feasibility Study

Coastal Water Clarity Modeling Feasibility Study
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 656
Release: 1995
Genre: Water quality
ISBN:

The goal of the ONR Coastal Water Clarity Program was to assess the feasibility of developing an integrated computer model for predicting diurnal and episodic changes in near coastal water optical properties. The approach was to build a detailed coastal environmental computer simulation, based on local meteorological, hydrological, and oceanographic observables, to predict spatial and temporal variations of optically significant constituents in the coastal water column. Because comprehensive space time data for the nearshore regime is not available, the level of feasibility was limited to demonstration of a working predictive visibility model (PVM), producing reasonable optical and interim environmental parameter variations over extended periods of time (multiple days).