Coastal Altimetry - Vignudelli, Stefano; Kostianoy, Andrey G.; Cipollini, Paolo; Benveniste, Jérôme.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011)
Preface -- Chapter 1: Altimetry Missions: past, present and future -- Chapter 2: From Research to Operations: The USDA Global Reservoir and Lake Monitor -- Chapter 3: User requirements in the coastal ocean for satellite altimetry -- Chapter 4: Re-tracking altimeter waveforms near the coasts: A review of retracking methods and some applications to coastal waveforms -- Chapter 5: Range and geophysical corrections in coastal regions - and implications for mean sea surface determination -- Chapter 6: Tropospheric corrections for coastal altimetry -- Chapter 7: Surge Models as Providers of Improved "Inverse Barometer Corrections" for Coastal Altimetry Users -- Chapter 8: Tide Predictions in Shelf and Coastal Waters: Status and Prospects -- Chapter 9: Post-processing altimeter data toward coastal applications and integration into coastal models -- Chapter 10: Coastal Challenges for Altimeter Data Dissemination and Services -- Chapter 11: In situ Absolute Calibration and Validation - A link from coastal to open-ocean altimetry -- Chapter 12: Introduction and assessment of improved coastal altimetry strategies: case-study over the North Western Mediterranean Sea -- Chapter 13: Satellite Altimetry Applications in the Caspian Sea -- Chapter 14: Satellite Altimetry Applications in the Black Sea -- Chapter 15: Satellite Altimetry Applications in the Barents and White seas -- Chapter 16: Satellite Altimetry Applications off the Coasts of North America -- Chapter 17: Evaluation of Retracking Algorithms over China and Adjacent Coastal Seas -- Chapter 18: Satellite altimetry for geodetic, oceanographic and climate studies in the Australian region -- Chapter 19: Lakes studies from satellite altimetry -- Chapter 20: The Future of Coastal Altimetry -- Index.
Keywords: Remote sensing; Oceanography; Geophysics; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.; Oceanography; Geophysics/Geodesy.