This paper is part of a work program concerning the modeling of object drift in near coastal ocean waters over a several week time period. The final target of this program is to develop methods to forecast the drift of things like containers, lost objects or oil spill over long periods of time in near coastal ocean areas. Such methods would be of interest for services in charge of maritime safe...

MERIS imageries over coastal waters around the United States were ordered from ESA. These data either reveal enormous phytoplankton blooms (chlorophyll concentrations in the range of 100 – 1000 mg/m) or turbid river plume waters or optically shallow environments. We used in situ measurements to validate remote-sensing reflectance derived from MERIS. Further, we applied algorithms designed for o...

The status report on metal pollution in tropical estuaries and coastal waters is important to understand potential environmental health hazards. Detailed baseline measurements were made on physicochemical parameters (pH, temperature, redox potential, electrical conductivity, salinity, dissolved oxygen, total dissolved solid), major ions (Na, Ca, Mg, K, HCO3, Cl, SO4 and NO3) and metals concentr...

1. Medical Physics Department, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 2. Ionizing and Non-ionizing Radiation Protection Research Center (INIRPRC), Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 3. Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 4. Tangestan Health Network, Bushehr University of Medical Sci...

The gap between airborne imaging spectroscopy and traditional multi spectral satellite sensors is decreasing thanks to a new generation of satellite sensors of which CHRIS mounted on the small and low-cost PROBA satellite is the prototype. Although image acquisition and analysis are still in a test phase, the high spatial and spectral resolution and pointability have proved their potential. Bec...