Fluvial Remote Sensing for Science and Management / Advancing River Restoration and Management (ePub)

This book offers a comprehensive overview of progress in the
general area of fluvial remote sensing with a specific focus on its
potential contribution to river management. The book highlights a
range of challenging issues by considering a range of spatial and
temporal scales with perspectives from a variety of disciplines.
The book starts with an overview of the technical progress leading
to new management applications for a range of field contexts and
spatial scales. Topics include colour imagery, multi-spectral and
hyper-spectral imagery, video, photogrammetry and LiDAR. The book
then discusses management applications such as targeted, network
scale, planning, land-use change modelling at catchment scales,
characterisation of channel reaches (riparian vegetation,
geomorphic features) in both spatial and temporal dimensions, fish
habitat assessment, flow measurement, monitoring river restoration
and maintenance and, the appraisal of human perceptions of
riverscapes.

Key Features:

* A specific focus on management applications in a period of
increasing demands on managers to characterize river features and
their evolution at different spatial scales

* An integration across all scales of imagery with a clear
discussion of both ground based and airborne images

* Includes a wide-range of environmental problems

* Coverage of cutting-edge technology

* Contributions from leading researchers in the field