Special Interest Group            

       Remote Sensing of the Coastal Zone

 

Workshop Programme

Ghent, Belgium, 5-7 June 2003

THURSDAY 5 June 2003

 8:30-  9:00   Registration

 9:00-10:30   Workshop Opening

DATA FUSION 1 (Oral Session) Chair: Jacques Populus

                     Integrated monitoring of coastal habitats using airborne remote sensing
Kyle Brown, National Centre for Environmental Data and Surveillance, Bath, UK

                     Combination of Lidar, MODIS and SeaWiFS sensors for simultaneous chlorophyll monitoring
L Fiorani, R Barbini, F Colao, L De Dominicis, R Fantoni, & A Palucci, ENEA, Frascati, Italy. E.S. Artamonov, SB RAS, Tomsk, Russia

                     Primary productivity monitored with combined local and remote techniques in coastal and ice edge areas of Antarctic Ross Sea
A Palucci, R Barbini, F Colao, R Fantoni & L Fiorani, ENEA, Frascati, Italy. S Sandrini, L Tositti & O Tubertini, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. S Ceradini, CESI, Milano, Italy. G. M. Ferrari, JRC, Ispra, Italy

                     Integration of remote sensing with geographic information systems (GIS) for an assessment of water quality variables in Finland
Y Zhang, S Koponen, J Pulliainen & M Hallikainen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

10:30-11:00  Coffee

11:00-12:30  COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT 1 (Oral Session) Chair: Sergey Babichenko

                     The OROMA project
F Ziemer, GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht, Germany. C Brockmann, Brockmann Consult, Hamburg, Germany. R Vaughan, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK

                     First results of the OROMA experiment in the Lister Tief of the German Bight in the North Sea
I Hennings & D Herbers, GEOMAR Forschungszentrum für marine Geowissenschaften, Kiel, Germany. F Ziemer, GKSS Forschungszentrum Geesthacht, Germany

                     Safer navigation in coastal areas with the aid of radar-measured surface currents
T Schlick, KW Gurgel & HH Essen, Institut für Meereskunde, Hamburg, Germany

                     Geochemical processes in coastal landscapes due to the Caspian sea-level fluctuations
NS Kasimov & MYu Lychagin, Moscow State University, Russia

12:30-14:00  Lunch

14:00-15:30  COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT 2 (Oral Session) Chair: Roberta Fantoni

                     Basic physical mechanisms of sand suspending in the nearshore zone under irregular waves
RD Kos'yan, N Pykhov, S Kuznetsov & I Podymov, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Gelendzhik, Russia. H Kunz, Coastal Research Station of the Lower Saxonian Central State Board for Ecology, Norderney, Germany

                     Dynamics and morphodynamics in sandy coastal environements: Application to the Aquitaine coast
H Dupuis, UMR 58 05, Talence, France. V Lafon Centro do IMAR da Universidade dos Açores; Horta, Portugal. R Garello & JM Le Caillec, ENSTB, Plouzané, France. P Dreuillet, ONERA, Palaiseau, France

                     Sand characterisation along the Belgian coast based on airborne hyperspectral images
B Deronde, S Sterckx, W Debruyn & D Fransaer, Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Mol, Belgium. R Houthuys, Belgium

INSTRUMENTS & METHODS 1 (Oral Session)

                     Matrix method of laser fluorimetry of complex organic compounds in water
VV Fadeev, TA Dolenko, DV Il’in, PN Litvinov & AA Meshkantsov, Moscow State University, Russia

                     A new time-series station for continuous measurements in the Wadden Sea (southern North Sea)
R Reuter, H Brumsack, O Dellwig, U Harksen, J Rullkötter & F Terjung, Universität Oldenburg, Germany. M Boer, M Kauder, M Koch, S Themann & S Marx, -4H- JENA Engineering GmbH, Germany. R Heuermann, TriOS Optical Sensors GmbH, Oldenburg, Germany

15:30-16:00  COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT 3 (Poster Announcement) Chair: Roberta Fantoni

                     Surveying coastal zone topography with airborne remote sensing: Elements of strategy
J Populus, C Rollet & B Guillaumont, Ifremer, Plouzané, France. A Laurentin, Saint-Herblain, France. C Bonnot-Courtois, CNRS, Dinard, France

                     Coastline change analysis of the Meriç River by using multitemporal remotely sensed data
S Ekercin, C Ormeci & C Goksel, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

                     Monitoring coastal marine thermal dynamics with AVHRR data in Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica
TW Hobma, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Enschede, The Netherlands. Zhang Lei, Inst. Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

                     Seasonal variability in spectral reflectance of coastal dune vegetation
M van Til, Amsterdam Water Supply, Vogelenzang, The Netherlands. AM Bijlmer, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. R de Lange, School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK

                     Comparison of time series of RS data and long term monitoring data: application and results for the Dutch and Belgian coastal zone
R Pasterkamp & HJ Van der Woerd, Institute for Environmental Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

                     Influence of a dam on a scours of river’s bedforms at the estuary
ON Melnikova, KV Pokazeev & O Egorov, Moscow State Lomonosov University, Russia

                     A performance analysis of the classification and manual digitising methods for the detection of coastline by using satellite image data
B Ustun, S Ekercin & N Musaoglu, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

                     Remote Sensing of the Neva Bight
F Ziemer, GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht, Germany. C Brockmann, Brockmann Consult, Hamburg, Germany. R Vaughan, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK

                     Black Sea environmental changes detection by satellite remote sensing data
M Zoran, National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics, Bucharest, Romania

                     Indicators of an aerial survey analysis on the Portuguese northwest coast
J Pais-Barbosa, F Veloso-Gomes & F Taveira-Pinto, Faculty of Engineer of Porto University, Portugal

16:00-16:30  Coffee

16:30-17:00  DATA FUSION 2 (Poster Announcement) Chair: Rainer Reuter

                     Barents Sea airborne research on the basis of ecosystem principles
V Zabavnikov, PINRO, Murmansk, Russia

                     Application of fusion techniques between Radarsat and Landsat Images for landuse distribution at Cartagena (Colombia) using supervised classification
P Almeida Guerra, CIOH. Cartagena-Colombia

                     INSTRUMENTS & METHODS 2 (Poster Announcement) Chair: Rainer Reuter

                     Along-track Interferometry (ATI) observations of currents and fronts in the Tay Estuary
T Macklin, BAE SYSTEMS Advanced Technology Centre, Chelmsford, England. G Ferrier, University of Hull, England

                     Support of offshore wind parks with synthetic aperture radar wind measurements
J Horstmann, GKSS Research Centre, Geesthacht, Germany. T Schneiderhan & S Lehner, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Wessling, Germany

                     Potential of polarimetric SAR data in mapping first year sea ice pressure ridges
E Hudier, University of Quebec, Rimouski, Canada. P Larouche, Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Mont-Joli, Canada

                     Variability of sea ice cover in the Caspian and Aral Seas from satellite microwave data
AV Kouraev, Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, Toulouse, France, et al.

                     Determination of class mixing value for extracting waterline using neural network in Korean tidal flat
J-H Ryu, H Schiller & R Doerffer, GKSS Forschungszentrum, Geesthacht, Germany. J-S Won, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

                     Segmented interpolation along the coastline for AVHRR NOAA images
M Tommasini, PF Pellegrini & G Poli, University of Firenze, Italy

                     Use of ground level hyperspectral reflectance measurements for the synoptic mapping of estuarine intertidal sediments
RM Forster & JC Kromkamp, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-CEME), Yerseke, The Netherlands

                     Development of a 3D-particle image velocimetry system (PIV) for coastal and river monitoring
H Haferkamp, S Barcikowski, U Stute & J Walter, Laserzentrum Hannover eV, Hannover, Germany

                     The Time Series Station Wadden Sea as an example for an autonomous, remote controlled monitoring system
S Themann & S Marx, -4H- Jena engineering GmbH, Kiel. R Reuter, Universität Oldenburg, Germany

17:00-18:00  POSTER SESSION 1  &  EXHIBITION

19:00-22:00  ICEBREAKER PARTY

FRIDAY 6 June 2003

 8:30-10:00   LIDAR 1 (Oral Session) Chair: Jacques Populus

                     Laser remote sensing of coastal and terrestrial pollution by FLS-Lidar
S Babichenko & L Poryvkina, AS LDI, Tallinn, Estonia. A Dudelzak, LDI International Inc., Ottawa, Canada

                     Metrology issues arising in shallow angle wave profiling LIDAR
MR Belmont, JMK Horwood & RWF Thurley, University of Exeter, UK

                     Fluorescence of dissolved organic matter in seawater at low temperatures
S Patsayeva, Moscow State University, Russia. R Reuter, University of Oldenburg, Germany. D Thomas, University of Wales-Bangor, Anglesey, UK.

                     Elastic and Raman lidar sounding of coastal waters: theory, computer simulation, inversion possibilities
EP Zege, IL Katsev, AS Prikhach & AV Malinka, Stepanov Institute of Physics, National Academy of Science, Minsk, Belarus

                     Experimental evidence of possibility of using the method of non-linear fluorimetry for diagnostics of phytoplankton state
DV Maslov, VV Fadeev, EE Ostroumov & SA Burikov, Moscow State University, Russia

10:00-10:30  LIDAR 2 (Poster Announcement) Chair: Rainer Reuter

                     New approaches to determination of temperature and salinity of seawater by laser Raman spectroscopy
SA Burikov, TA Dolenko & SA Dolenko, Moscow State University, Russia

                     Determination of oil pollutants concentrations in Caspian sea (mouth zone of river Volga) by shipboard laser spectrometer
VV Chubarov, VV Fadeev & DV Il'in, Moscow State University, Russia

                     Drop of DOM/Raman ratio in water fluorescence lidar signal versus laser intensity
AF Bunkin & S M Pershin, General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

                     10-Fold increasing of backscattering Lidar signal caused by oil film on water surface
SM Pershin, General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

                     Polarizable Aviation LIDAR (PAL-1) as means of fisheries-biological and oceanographic airborne research carrying out
V Chernook , V Zabavnikov & A Vasiliev, PINRO, Murmansk, Russia

                     Fluorescence characteristics of the surface water layer of Arctic Seas based on lidar and spectrophotometric methods
V Drozdowska, J Stoń, A Beszczyńska-Moller, W Walczowski, J Piskozub, M Irczuk, T Zieliński, Institute of Oceanology PAS, Sopot, Poland

                     Study of spatial distribution of seawater diffuse attenuation coefficient Kd using airborne lidar remote sensing
YuA Goldin, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS, Moscow, Russia. VI Chernook & AN Vasilev, PINRO, Murmansk, Russia. AM Alekseev, MULTITECH, St. Peterburg. Russia

                     New ultra-violet lidar intended for determination of oil pollution and concentration of organic matter, chlorophyll, suspended matter in the sea
VN Pelevin & VV Pelevin, PP Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS, Moscow, Russia. OI Abramov & GG Karlsen, Russian Electrotechnical Institute, Moscow, Russia

                     Integration of two Lidar fluorosensor payloads in submarine ROV and flying UAV platforms
R Fantoni, R Barbini, F Colao, D Ferrante, L Fiorani & A Palucci, ENEA, Frascati, Italy

                     Blue fluorescence of NADPH as an indicator of marine primary production
S Steigenberger, F Terjung, H-P Grossart & R Reuter, Universität Oldenburg, Germany

                     Monte Carlo analysis of underwater LIF  measurements
G Ferro, ENEA, Bologna, Italy. J Fernandez & V Scot, University of Bologna, Italy. R Barbini, F Colao & A Palucci, ENEA, Frascati, Italy

10:30-11:00  Coffee

11:00-11:30  POSTER SESSION 2

11:30-12:30  COASTAL HABITAT 1 (Oral Session) Chair: Sergey Babichenko

                     The use of hyperspectral data in coastal zone vegetation monitoring
R de Lange, School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK. M Van Til Amsterdam Water Supply, Vogelenzang, The Netherlands

                     Coral reef habitat mapping in the Red Sea (Hurghada, Egypt) based on remote sensing
T Vanderstraete & R Goossens, Ghent University, Belgium. TK Ghabour, Soils and water use department, NRC, Cairo, Egypt

                     Satellite radar remote sensing of intertidal flats for mapping, monitoring and prediction of benthic macrofauna
D van der Wal, PMJ Herman & JC Kromkamp, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Yerseke, The Netherlands. VRM van Lancker, Ghent University, Belgium

12:30-14:00  Lunch

14:00-16:00  PRACTICAL EXERCISES & TRAINING

Exercise 1: UNESCO Bilko project training module on Remote Sensing Applications to Fisheries Sciences
TW Hobma, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Enschede, The Netherlands

Exercise 2: Atmospheric correction of ocean colour images
MT Slater, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK

Exercise 3: Identification of oil in water with fluorescence spectroscopy and neural network analysis
TA Dolenko, VV Fadeev & D Maslov, Moscow State University, Russia; F Terjung & R Reuter, Universität Oldenburg, Germany

Exercise 4: Range-resolved detection of substances with fluorescence lidar
R Westphal & A Kuales, Universität Oldenburg, Germany

Exercise 5: Remote oil film thickness measurement at the water surface by means of water Raman signal attenuation
L Fiorani, ENEA, Frascati, Italy

Exercise 6: Lidar data acquisition, real-time and post-processing of lidar data
S Babichenko & L Poryvkina, AS LDI, Tallinn, Estonia

Exercise 7: Suspended sediment concentrations measured with hyperspectral reflectance
F Terjung, Universität Oldenburg, Germany; Rüdiger Heuermann, TriOS Optical Sensors GmbH, Oldenburg, Germany

Exercise 8: Analysis of scattering and absorbing matter in water with hyperspectral transmissometry
F Terjung & R Reuter, Universität Oldenburg, Germany; Karin Munderloh, TriOS Optical Sensors GmbH, Oldenburg, Germany

16:00-16:30  Coffee

16:30-18:00  DISCUSSION GROUPS

19:00-22:00  WORKSHOP DINNER

SATURDAY 7 June 2003

 8:30 -  9:30  OCEAN COLOUR 1 (Oral Session) Chair: Roberta Fantoni

                     Optical remote sensing in support of eutrophication monitoring in the southern North Sea
V De Cauwer, Kevin Ruddick, YoungJe Park, Bouchra Nechad & Geneviève Lacroix, Management Unit of the North Sea, Mathematical Models (MUMM), Brussels, Belgium.

                     A survey of total suspended matter in the southern North Sea based on the 2001 SeaWiFS data
MA Eleveld, R Pasterkamp & HJ van der Woerd, Institute for Environmental Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

                     High Resolution Maps of Suspended Particulate Matter Concentration in the German Bight
S Lehner, I Anders & A Neumann, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Weßling, Germany

  9:30-10:15  OCEAN COLOUR 2 (Poster Announcement) Chair: Rainer Reuter

                     New fast code for radiative transfer with polarization in the system atmosphere-ocean: application to the satellite remote sensing
EP Zege, IL Katsev, AS Prikhach & LI Chaikovskaya, Stepanov Institute of Physics, National Academy of Science, Minsk, Belarus

                     Towards the development of specific bio-optical algorithms for the Estuary and Gulf of St Lawrence (Eastern Canada)
B Nieke, P Larouche & J-C Therriault, Institut Maurice-Lamontagne, Mont-Joli, Québec, Canada. S Roy, ISMER, Rimouski, Québec, Canada

                     Exploitation of MERIS Data: Conception of products and services for coastal applications
A Minghelli-Roman, Alcatel-IRD-Ecole des Mines de Paris, Sophia Antipolis, France. F Cauneau, Ecole des Mines de Paris, Sophia Antipolis, France. S Marni, Alcatel Space, France. L Polidori, IRD, France

                     Comparison between remote sensed data and in situ measurements in coastal waters: the Taranto Marine Sea case
V De Pasquale & R Matarrese, Bari University, Italy

                     Chl-a and SST characteristics of the surface waters of the North Aegean Sea with special emphasis on the role of the discharge from the Dardanelles
L Jönsson, Department of Water Resources Engineering, University of Lund, Sweden

                     Quantification of suspended sediments in estuarine waters from remotely sensed (SPOT, Landsat) data. A semi-empirical approach
D Doxaran & S Lavender, Institute of Marine Studies, Plymouth, UK. J-M Froidefond, Université Bordeaux 1, France

                     Characterisation of the tidal flat water column with optical measurements
F Terjung, H Brumsack, O Dellwig, S Kölsch & R Reuter, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany. M Wernand, NIOZ, Den Burg, The Netherlands

                     UNESCO Bilko project releases a new training module on Remote Sensing Applications to Fisheries Sciences
TW Hobma, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Enschede, The Netherlands. C Donlon, JRC, Ispra, Italy. I Robinson, University of Southampton, UK. D Blackburn, Buis les Baronnies, France. A Edwards, University of Newcastle, UK. M Dobson, Scotland On-Line, Dundee, UK. J Morales, CICEM "Agua del Pino", Huelva, Spain

                     Remote sensing in the marine boundary layer over coastal areas
T Zielinski, A Zielinski, J Piskozub, V Drozdowska & M Irczuk, Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland

                     Case2 water Lake Baikal: SeaWiFS data analyses within the scope of the Paleoclimate Project CONTINENT
Birgit Heim, Hedi Oberhaensli & Hermann Kaufmann, GeoForschungsZentrum  Potsdam (GFZ), Potsdam, Germany

                     Remote diagnostics of coastal zone / deep basin exchange from full spectra of normalized water-leaving radiance
GS Karabashev, MA Evdoshenko & SV Sheberstov, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia

                     Towards Remote Sensing of Virally Induced Mass Mortality of Cyanobacteria
Stefan Simis, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Maarssen, The Netherlands

10:15-10:30  COASTAL HABITAT 2 (Poster Announcement) Chair: Jacques Populus

                     Change in the spectral response of a mangrove forest before and after an hurricane event and a restoration effort
JV Durand & R U Herrera, Universidad del Mar, Puerto Angel, Mexico. J Lopez-Portillo, Insituto de Ecología, Jalapa, México

                     Historical change (1985-2001) of the Mangrove coverage in the southern coast of México (Oaxaca).
V Palacios-Chávez & H Raúl Ulloa, Universidad del Mar, Puerto Angel, México

                     Habitat for fisheries evaluation
M de los Angeles Liceaga-Correa, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Mérida, Yucatán. México. WA-Dávila, Centro de Investigaciones Científicas y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Baja California. México

10:30-11:00  Coffee

11:00-11:30  POSTER SESSION 3

11:30-12:30  PRACTICAL EXERCISES & TRAINING see list of exercises on Friday 14:00-16:00 h

12:30-14:00  Lunch

14:00-16:00  OCEAN COLOUR 3 (Oral Session) Chair: Sergey Babichenko

                     Airborne Hyperspectral Potential for Coastal Biogeochemistry of the Scheldt Estuary and Plume
M Shimoni & M Acheroy, Royal Military Academy, Brussels, Belgium. D Sirjacobs, S Djenidi, AV Borges & M Frankignoulle, Liege University, Belgium. L Chou, University of Brussels, Belgium. W Vyvermans, Gent University, Belgium

                     Correction of remotely acquired benthic hyperspectral imagery for alterations produced by the atmosphere and water column
A Minghelli-Roman, Alcatel-IRD-Cenerg, Sophia-Antipolis, France

                     Spectral characterization of the coastal zone: Comparison between water-leaving radiance and photosynthetic carotinoids
K-H Szekielda, City University of New York, USA

                     The MERIS Chlorophyll maps of the North Sea: REVAMP first results
H van der Woerd & S Peters, Institute for Environmental Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

                     Integrated multi-environmental satellite remote sensing for North Sea and Baltic Sea coastal water monitoring
RA Vaughan & MT Slater, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK

16:00-17:00  PLENARY & CLOSING SESSION