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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This volume gives a wide ranging overview of current issues in the acquisition and evaluation of geophysical information from the air and from space and is suitable for postgraduate and postdoctoral students as well as established workers in the field.

Topics covered include the processing and interpretation of remote sensing data from aircraft and satellites; reflection and emission properties of natural surfaces; use of remote sensing data for coastal and marine environmental studies; pollution monitoring; surface temperature measurements and meteorological measurements. In addition, a large part of the material is concerned with the various data anlysis techniques employed and the accuracy of the results obtained when attempting to make geophysical measurements through the atmosphere.

(Extracted from the back cover)

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-SUSSP Proceedings.

-Lecturers.

-Executive Committee/International Organising Committee.

-Preface.

-Contents.

-Overview of Remote Sensing and Data Availability.

-Contemporary European Initiatives for the Utilisation of Space-based Data in Environmental Monitoring.

-Remote Sensing Activities at the Natural Resources Institute for the Measurement of Geophysical Parameters.

-Synthetic Aperture Radar: Principles and Applications.

-An Automated Approach to the Detection of Oil Spills in Satellite-Based SAR Imagery.

-Radar Altimetry.

-Remote Sensing of Water Quality: Shallow Water Bathymetry.

-The Earth's Surface Temperature.

-Line Detection using Morphological Filters.

-Retrieval of Atmospheric Parameters from Space-borne Radiometric Measurements.

-Ozone Concentrations: Satellite and Ground-based Measurements.

-Atmospheric Acoustic Sounding.

-Meteo Disc: an Interactive Meteorological Videodisc.

-The Design and Implementation of MetVUW Workbench Version 1.0.

-Displacement Vector Fields of Oceanic Surface Structures from Satellite Image Sequences.

-Derivation of Wind Vector Fields From Satellite Image Sequences.

-Participant's Addresses.

-Index.

OUR REVIEW

This certainly is a specialized work clearly aimed at personnel well related to this field. Its origin is, in actual fact, scholarly indeed: the lectures presented in one of the latest (1994) Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, yearly held since 1960, have been gathered in this volume so that their very interesting conclusions can reach the rest of the scientific community in a complete and fast form. The participants, all of them expert in their own fields, state the latest being researched in this respect, above all around the determination of the different geophysical parameters from space.

The summer school that sponsored the meeting also received the technical support of the NATO, of several firms and of the Commision of the European Communities. The themes there dealt with, of an utmost importance given its influence in the knowledge of the terrestrial environment and its visible degradation, were selected according to their interest and current importance. In summary, this is a magnificient book that the scientific circles will no doubt appreciate given its novelty and contents.