Overview
- Covers a unique collection of seafloor mapping techniques
- Provides an overview of methods and technologies for mapping benthic habitats
- Presents latest advances in seabed imaging
- Highlights modern procedures of communicating results of seafloor mapping on continental shelves
- Summarizes the state-of-the-art in visualizing the nature of seabeds on continental shelves
Part of the book series: Coastal Research Library (COASTALRL, volume 13)
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This university-level reference work covers a range of remote sensing techniques that are useful for mapping and visualizing benthic environments on continental shelves. Chapters focus on overviews of the history and future of seafloor mapping techniques, cartographical visualisation and communication of seafloor mapping, and practical applications of new technologies. Seabed mapping is referenced by high-resolution seismic methods, sidescan sonar, multibeam bathymetry, satellite imagery, LiDAR, acoustic backscatter techniques, and soundscape ecology monitoring, use of autonomous underwater vehicles, among other methods. The wide breadth of subjects in this volume provides diversified coverage of seafloor imaging. This collection of modern seafloor mapping techniques summarizes the state of the art methods for mapping continental shelves.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Historical Development of Seafloor Mapping and Survey
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Environmental/Biological Survey of Coastal and Shelf Environments
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Physical Surveys of Coasts and Seafloor Exploration on Continental Shelves
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Seafloor Mapping along Continental Shelves
Book Subtitle: Research and Techniques for Visualizing Benthic Environments
Editors: Charles W. Finkl, Christopher Makowski
Series Title: Coastal Research Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25121-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25119-6Published: 08 April 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79737-3Published: 20 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25121-9Published: 24 March 2016
Series ISSN: 2211-0577
Series E-ISSN: 2211-0585
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 293
Number of Illustrations: 60 b/w illustrations, 146 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oceanography, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Coastal Sciences