Remote Sensing of Coastal Environments (Remote Sensing Applications Series)

460 Pages·2009·13.19 MB·English

by  Yeqiao Wang

REMOTE SENSING OF
COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS
Taylor & Francis Series in
Remote Sensing Applications
Series Editor
Qihao Weng
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.A.
Remote Sensing of Coastal Environments, edited by Yeqiao Wang
Remote Sensing of Global Croplands for Food Security, edited by
Prasad S. Thenkabail, John G. Lyon, Hugh Turral, and Chandashekhar M. Biradar
Global Mapping of Human Settlement: Experiences, Data Sets,
and Prospects, edited by Paolo Gamba and Martin Herold
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing: Principles and Applications,
Marcus Borengasser, William S. Hungate, and Russell Watkins
Remote Sensing of Impervious Surfaces, Qihao Weng
Multispectral Image Analysis Using the Object-Oriented Paradigm,
Kumar Navulur
REMOTE SENSING OF
COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS
Edited by
YEQIAO WANG
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Remote sensing of coastal environments / editor, Yeqiao Wang.
p. cm. -- (Taylor & Francis series in remote sensing applications)
“A CRC title.”
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4200-9441-1 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Coastal ecology--Remote sensing. 2. Coats--Remote sensing. 3. Coastal zone
management--Remote sensing. 4. Environmental monitoring--Remote sensing. I. Wang,
Yeqiao. II. Title. III. Series.
QH541.15.R4R45 2010
577.5’10284--dc22 2009035957
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Contents
Series Foreword ........................................................................................................ix
Preface.......................................................................................................................xi
Editor .....................................................................................................................xiii
Contributors .............................................................................................................xv
Chapter 1 Remote Sensing of Coastal Environments: An Overview ...................1
Yeqiao Wang
SECTION I: LiDAR/Radar Remote Sensing
Chapter 2 Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) Study
of Coastal Wetlands over Southeastern Louisiana .............................25
Zhong Lu and Oh-Ig Kwoun
Chapter 3 Mangrove Canopy 3D Structure and Ecosystem
Productivity Using Active Remote Sensing .......................................61
Marc Simard, Lola E. Fatoyinbo, and Naiara Pinto
Chapter 4 Integration of LiDAR and Historical Maps to Measure
Coastal Change on a Variety of Time and Spatial Scales ..................79
Cheryl J. Hapke
Chapter 5 Coastal 3D Change Pattern Analysis Using LiDAR Series Data ..........103
Guoqing Zhou
SECTION II: Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
Chapter 6 Mapping the Onset and Progression of Marsh Dieback ...................123
Elijah Ramsey III and Amina Rangoonwala
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Chapter 7 Estimating Chlorophyll Conditions in Southern New England
Coastal Waters from Hyperspectral Aircraft
Remote Sensing ................................................................................151
Darryl J. Keith
Chapter 8 Mapping Salt Mash Vegetation by Integrating Hyperspectral
and LiDAR Remote Sensing ............................................................173
Jiansheng Yang and Francisco J. Artigas
SECTION III: High Spatial-Resolution Remote Sensing
Chapter 9 Mapping Salt Marshes in Jamaica Bay and Terrestrial
Vegetation in Fire Island National Seashore Using
QuickBird Satellite Data ..................................................................191
Yeqiao Wang, Mark Christiano, and Michael Traber
Chapter 10 Object-Based Data Integration and Classifi cation
for High-Resolution Coastal Mapping .............................................209
Jie Shan and Ejaz Hussain
Chapter 11 True-Color Digital Orthophotography Data for Mapping
Coastal Impervious Surface Areas ...................................................235
Yuyu Zhou and Yeqiao Wang
Chapter 12 FORMOSAT-2 Images in Mapping of South Asia
Tsunami Disaster ......................................................................245
Ming-Der Yang, Tung-Ching Su, and An-Ming Wu
SECTION IV: Remote Sensing and In Situ
Measurements for Habitat Mapping
Chapter 13 Remote Sensing and In Situ Measurements for
Delineation and Assessment of Coastal Marshes
and their Constituent Species ...........................................................261
Martha S. Gilmore, Daniel L. Civco, Emily H. Wilson,
Nels Barrett, Sandy Prisloe, James D. Hurd, and
Cary Chadwick
Contents vii
Chapter 14 Quantifying Biophysical Conditions of Herbaceous
Wetland Vegetation in Poyang Lake of Coastal China via
Multitemporal SAR Imagery and In Situ Measurements .................281
Limin Yang, Huiyong Sang, Hui Lin, and Jinsong Chen
Chapter 15 EO-1 Advanced Land Imager Data in Submerged
Aquatic Vegetation Mapping ............................................................297
Eric R. Akins, Yeqiao Wang, and Yuyu Zhou
Chapter 16 Remote Sensing Applications Used to Inventory and
Monitor Natural Resources in North Atlantic Coastal
National Parks ..................................................................................313
Sara Stevens and Courtney Schupp
SECTION V: E ffects of Land-Use/Land-Cover
Change in Coastal Areas
Chapter 17 Coastal Area Land-Cover Change Analysis
for Connecticut .................................................................................333
James D. Hurd, Daniel L. Civco, Emily H. Wilson,
and Chester L. Arnold
Chapter 18 Effects of Increasing Urban Impervious Surface on
Hydrology of Coastal Rhode Island Watersheds..............................355
Yuyu Zhou, Yeqiao Wang, Arthur J. Gold, and Peter V. August
Chapter 19 Contemporary Land-Use/Land-Cover Change in Coastal
Pearl River Delta and Its Impact on Regional Climate ....................369
Limin Yang, Wenshi Lin, Lu Zhang, Hui Lin,
and Dongsheng Du
Chapter 20 Geospatial Information for Sustainable Development:
A Case Study in Coastal East Africa ...............................................395
Yeqiao Wang, James Tobey, Amani Ngusaru, Vedast Makota,
Gregory Bonynge, and Jarunee Nugranad
Index ......................................................................................................................413

Series Foreword
Remote sensing refers to the technology of acquiring information about the Earth’s
surface (land and ocean) and atmosphere using sensors onboard airborne (aircraft
and balloons) or spaceborne (satellites and space shuttles) platforms. The technology
of remote sensing gradually evolved into a scientifi c subject after World War II. Its
early development was mainly driven by military uses. Later, remotely sensed data
became widely applied for civic usages. The range of remote sensing applications
includes archeology, agriculture, cartography, civil engineering, meteorology and
climatology, coastal studies, emergency response, forestry, geology, geographic
information systems, hazards, land use and land cover, natural disasters, oceano-
graphy, water resources, and so on. Most recently, with the advent of high spatial-
resolution imagery and more capable techniques, commercial applications of remote
sensing are rapidly gaining interest in the remote sensing community and beyond.
The Taylor & Francis Series in Remote Sensing Applications is dedicated to
recent developments in the theories, methods, and applications of remote sensing.
Written by a team of leading authorities, each book is designed to provide up-to-
date developments in a chosen subfi eld of remote sensing applications. Each book
may vary in format, but often contains similar components, such as a review of
theories and methods, analysis of case studies, and examination of the methods for
applying remote sensing techniques to a particular practical area. These books may
serve as guides or reference books for professionals, researchers, scientists, and
similarly in academics, governments, and industries. College instructors and stu-
dents may also fi nd them to be excellent sources for textbooks or supplementary to
their chosen textbooks.
A coastal environment possesses one of the most dynamic interfaces between
human civilization and environmental conservation. In the United States, over half
of the human population lives in coastal counties, while worldwide over 38% of the
human population lives in the coastal zone. Global climate change has made the
coastal zone the most challenging frontier in environmental planning and manage-
ment, because many of the coastal zones face the danger of being submerged. Remote
sensing is one of the most effective technologies for monitoring coastal environ-
ments and for assessing their conditions.
Professor Yeqiao Wang is an internationally known expert in the fi eld of remote
sensing, especially in applications of this technology to coastal environments.
Because of his outstanding achievements, Professor Wang was awarded the presti-
gious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) by
President Clinton in 2000 and a Chang-Jiang endowed professorship by the Ministry
of Education of China. In this book, Remote Sensing of Coastal Environment,
Professor Wang examines three new research frontiers in coastal remote sensing,
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