[Coral-List] Special Issue of the International Journal of Remote Sensing
Sam Purkis
purkis at nova.edu
Mon Jul 4 07:38:07 EDT 2011
Hi Coral List,
Please see below an announcement for a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Remote Sensing. I post as it may be of
interest to those of you who work on air- and space-borne assessments
of reefs. If you're interested in contributing a manuscript, please
contact the Guest Editors - John Brock, Jeffery Danielson, and myself.
All the best,
Sam Purkis
National Coral Reef Institute
Nova Southeastern University
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CALL MANUSCRIPTS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF
REMOTE SENSING
Title: Emerging Methods for the Study of Coastal Ecosystem Landscape
Structure and Change
Guest Editors: John C. Brock, Jeffery J. Danielson, and Sam Purkis
Coastal landscapes are heterogeneous, dynamic, evolve over a range of
time scales due to intertwined climatic, geologic, hydrologic,
biologic, and meteorological processes, and are also heavily impacted
by human development, commercial activities, and resource
extraction. A diversity of complex coastal systems around the globe,
spanning glaciated shorelines to tropical atolls, wetlands, and
barrier islands are responding to multiple human and natural
drivers. Comprehensive interdisciplinary research based on diverse
remote sensing observations coupled to process studies and models is
required to understand coastal ecosystem landscape structure and
change. Moreover, new techniques for coastal mapping and monitoring
are increasingly serving the needs of policy-makers and resource
managers across local, regional, and national scales. Emerging
remote sensing methods associated with a variety of instruments and
platforms are a key enabling element of integrated coastal ecosystem
studies. These investigations require both targeted and synoptic
mapping, and involve the monitoring of formative processes such as
hydrodynamics, sediment transport, erosion, accretion, flooding,
habitat complexity and modification, land cover change, and carbon fluxes.
This Special Issue of the International Journal of Remote Sensing is
intended to serve as a forum for researchers to communicate findings
on the following broad topics: 1) the merging of multi-source
elevation data to create cross-environment topobathymetric models, 2)
capturing shallow submerged morphology in wetlands and across shallow
embayments, estuaries, and coral reefs, 3) mapping the physical and
ecological structure of regional land cover and biotopes, benthic and
terrestrial habitats, and wetlands, 4) advances in spaceborne,
airborne and ground-based lidars, 5) sensing vegetation canopy
structure, and 6) the analysis of coastal biotic and abiotic change.
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2011
Please contact one of the Guest Editors if you intend to submit a manuscript:
John C. Brock
US Geological Survey
Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Mail Stop 915-B, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, VA 20192 , Ph#: 703-648-6053, Fx#: 703-648-5464
Email: jbrock at usgs.gov
Jeffery J. Danielson
US Geological Survey, EROS Data Center
47914 252nd Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57198-9801
Ph#: 605-594-6148, Email: daniels at usgs.gov
Sam Purkis
National Coral Reef Institute, Oceanographic Center
Nova Southeastern University, 8000 North Ocean Drive
Dania, FL 33004, Ph#: 954-262-3647
Email: purkis at nova.edu
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Sam Purkis, PhD
National Coral Reef Institute (Assoc. Professor)
Oceanographic Center
Nova Southeastern University
8000 N. Ocean Drive, Dania
FL 33004
USA
(954) 262-3647 (phone office)
(954) 927-1593 (phone home)
(954) 600-9983 (mobile)
http://www.nova.edu/~purkis
Chagos Conservation Trust - U.S.
<http://cctus.org/>http://cctus.org
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