Technical manuals and data sources

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Manuals

Edwards, A. J., Ed. (1999). Applications of satellite and airborne image data to coastal management. Coastal Regions and Small Islands Papers. Paris, UNESCO.

Green, E. P., P. J. Mumby, A. J. Edwards and C. D. Clark (2000). Remote sensing handbook for tropical coastal management. Paris, UNESCO.

Hill, J. and C. Wilkinson (2004). Methods for Ecological Monitoring of Coral Reefs. Version 1. Townsville, Australian Institute of Marine Science and Reef Check.

IOCCG (2000). Remote sensing of ocean colour in coastal, and other optically complex, waters. Dartmouth, Canada, Int. Ocean Color Coordinating Group.

Lindell, T., Pierson, D., Premazzi, G. and Zilioli, E., Ed. (1999). Manual for Monitoring European Lakes Using Remote Sensing Techniques. Environment and Quality of Life Series. Luxembourg, European Commission, Environment Institute, JRC Ispra.

National Land & Water Resources Audit / Australia New Zealand Land Information Council (2003) Natural Resources Information Management Toolkit. V1.4

NOAA Coastal Services Centre – Coastal Remote Sensing Program (This web site helps technicians and coastal managers understand options for selecting, obtaining, and using remote sensing data).

Phinn, S. and Dekker, A.G. (eds) An Integrated Remote Sensing Approach for Adaptive Management of Complex Coastal Waters: The Moreton Bay Case Study. (PDF file, 5.17MB)

Contacts

Stuart Phinn (s.phinn@uq.edu.au, 61-7-33656526)
Chris Roelfsema (c.roelfsema@uq.edu.au, 61-7-33652529)

Centre for Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Science
School of Geography, Planning and Architecture
University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Queensland, 4072
www.gpa.uq.edu.au/crssis

Arnold Dekker (arnold.dekker@csiro.au, 61-2-62465821)
Vittorio Brando (vittorio.brando@csiro.au, 61-2-62465716)

Environmental Remote Sensing Group
CSIRO Land and Water
Canberra, ACT, 2601
http://www.clw.csiro.au/research/sensing/remote/

Data acquisition

The following data providers have acquired image data in coastal environments for the Remote Sensing Project Team. The list is not exhaustive. Users are referred to the December 2005/January 2006 Edition of 'Position' , the journal of the Australian Spatial Sciences Institute for its listing of image data providers.

• Australian Centre for Remote Sensing ACRES
• Geoimage
• Digital Globe (Quickbird)
• Space Imaging (Ikonos)
• AAM- Hatch (Airborne Laser)
• Hyvista (Hymap)

Free data

• Google Earth
• NASA – Near Real Time MODIS
• NASA – Land Processes Distributed archive
• NASA – EOSDIS
• Ocean Colour Page
• Earth Science Data Interface
• Millenium Coral Reef Project
• Shuttle Imaging Radar Project