 | Bio-optical Modeling and Remote Sensing of Inland Waters Bio-optical Modeling and Remote Sensing of Inland Waters presents the latest developments, state-of-the-art, and future perspectives of bio-optical modeling for each optically active component of inland waters, providing a broad range of applications of water quality monitoring using remote sensing. Rather than discussing optical radiometry theories, the authors explore the applications of these theories to inland aquatic environments. The book not only covers applications, but also discusses new possibilities, making the bio-optical theories operational, a concept that is of great interest to both government and private sector organizations. In addition, it addresses not only the physical theory that makes bio-optical modeling possible, but also the implementation and applications of bio-optical modeling in inland waters. Early chapters introduce the concepts of bio-optical modeling and the classification of bio-optical models and satellite capabilities both in existence and in development. Later chapters target specific optically active components (OACs) for inland waters and present the current status and future direction of bio-optical modeling for the OACs. Concluding sections provide an overview of a governance strategy for global monitoring of inland waters based on earth observation and bio-optical modeling. Deepak R. Mishra is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia. His research expertise is in the application of remote sensing to monitor environments, particularly water and wetland resources in the southeastern United States. He has published more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, serves in the editorial team of several journals, and is an active reviewer for more than 40 international journal. Igor Ogashawara is a PgD candidate in Applied Earth Sciences at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. His current research is on bio-optical modeling to identify and predict cyanobacteria in inland waters. In his studies, he has explored the linkage between weather types and cyanobacteria blooms and as a graduate student at the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research he used bio-optical modeling to monitor water quality in tropical hydroelectric reservoirs. Anatoly A. Gitelson is the Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship Visiting Professor at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), and a professor emeritus in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Gitelson's expertise is in the area of remote sensing of aquatic and terrestrial environments and he has published more than 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals and serves on the editorial board of several journals. |
