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Underwater acoustics has become one of the major technologies used in the exploration and exploitation of the oceans. This book provides an updated and extended overview of current underwater acoustics. It emphasizes practical approaches to actual problems.

Sonar performance modelling (SPM) is concerned with the prediction of quantitative measures of sonar performance, such as probability of detection. He has written many peer reviewed research articles and conference papers related to sonar performance modeling, making contributions in the fields of sound propagation and detection theory.

This book offers a survey of the contribution of satellite data to the study of the ocean, focusing on the special insights that only satellite data can bring to oceanography.

Describes the techniques used by volcanologists to successfully predict several volcanic eruptions by combining information from various scientific disciplines, including geodetic techniques. This book includes chapters on the developments in the use of the Global Positioning System and Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry techniques.

Volcanoes have always fascinated scientists and the general public. This book provides state-of-the-art techniques for real-time volcano monitoring and analysis using space-borne data. The book fills a huge gap in the science of volcano remote sensing.

With climate change and deforestation, debris flows and debris avalanches have become the most significant landslide hazards in many countries. Matthias Jakob has worked on debris flow for over a decade and has had numerous papers published on the topic, as well as working as a consultant on debris flow for municipal and provincial governments.

This book covers Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) imaging of Aleutian volcanoes. InSAR is a relatively new remote sensing tool whose images enable the construction of detailed mechanical models to enhance the study of magmatic processes.

This exhaustive new edition offers the fundamentals of sidescan sonar imagery and bathymetry and explains the tricky science of interpreting them. It also covers all recent advances in the field regarding both technology and knowledge of marine structures.

This story of the Galileo spacecraft probe to Jupiter`s moon provides a unique understanding of the Galileo images of Europa, and examines in detail the physical setting that might sustain extra-terrestrial life in Europa's ocean and icy crust.

"Sinkholes and Subsidence" provides a twenty-first century account of how the various subsidence features in carbonate and evaporite rocks cause problems in development and construction in our living environment.

Some of the wide variety of phytoplankton species in our oceans produce toxins harmful to marine life. Drawing on current and future satellite data, this book details the research techniques for monitoring and predicting visible algae blooms.

This is a state-of-the-art interpretive presentation of satellite image data, and analysis of the current state of the world's glaciers. Experts in satellite image analysis of glaciers analyze and interpret the changing nature of glaciers across the globe.

The numerous line drawings are clearly reproduced, although the mediocre quality of photographic reproduction limits the value of air photographs and satellite images. Some of the writing is so dense that it requires minute concentration--one chapter, for instance, has 14 pages of references from a total of 43 pages.

The variety of applications of remotely sensed data to ocean science has grown significantly and new areas of science are emerging to exploit the gobal datasets being recovered by satellites, particularly in relation to climate and climate change, basin-scale, air-sea interaction processes (e.g.

This will be the first book that deals with the use of commercial satellite imagery to monitor non-proliferation of nuclear weapons non-intrusively from space by an international organisation.

The book opens with the basic techniques of satellite geocoding (including the use of GPS and mosaic production) before describing a wide range of algorithms for extraction of information from optical and radar satellite images.