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The ocean of planet Earth still holds many secrets. This book aims to show its readers how the use of remote-sensing devices on Earth-orbiting satellites has revealed hitherto unseen aspects of the sea. It points to new ways of understanding the ocean and new insights in ocean science, which have developed only since Earth observation (EO) technology granted us a unique vantage point in space from which to measure aspects of the ocean. It demonstrates the applications of “satellite oceanography”, showing it to be an exciting tool which in future should unlock more of the ocean’s mysteries. It also describes how the particular sampling capabilities of sensors above the Earth can be put to work in the more operational tasks of monitoring, forecasting, and managing the marine environment.
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Robinson, I. S. (2004), Measuring the Ocean from Space: The Principles and Methods of Satellite Oceanography (669 pp.). Springer/Praxis, Heidelberg, Germany/Chichester, U.K.
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Robinson, I.S. (2010). Introduction. In: Discovering the Ocean from Space. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68322-3_1
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