Aquatic Pollution and Coastal Management

Unit 14 : Coastal zone management and information system

14.7.Application of remote sensing in coastal & marine environments
In terms of actual application of remote sensing in the fields under consideration there are three main elements for which it plays important role:

• By providing baseline data on Coastal geomorphology and habitats.
• In studying the features related with the waters e.g sediment plume (turbidity) interaction of wind and wave bottom topography, currents and sea surface temperature for location potential fishing grounds in the offshore.
• In detection, mapping and measurements of pollutants in broad sense