Southern Monterey Bay was the most intensively mined shoreline (with sand removed directly from the surf zone) in the U.S. during the period from 1906 until 1990, when the mines were closed following hypotheses that the mining caused coastal erosion It is estimated that the yearly averaged amount of mined sand between 1940 and 1984 was 128,000 m3/yr, which is approximately 50% of the yearly average dune volume loss during ...
Hyperion is a hyperspectral sensor on board NASA's EO-1 satellite. Its spatial resolution is about 30 m with a swath of ~7 Km. Though Hyperion was not designed for ocean studies, its unique spectral configuration makes it especially attractive to study the effectiveness of such kind of sensor for observing complex coastal waters. In this study, Hyperion data over two sites of the Florida coasts were acquired, with one focused ...
There are two imagers on NASA's EO-1 satellite: Hyperion and Advanced Land Imager (ALI). Hyperion is a hyperspectral sensor with about 45 bands covering the spectral range of 430-900 nm, while ALI has only six (wide width) bands for the same range. Past studies have shown that data from both kinds of sensors can provide observations of important environmental properties, such as bathymetry and water turbidity. However, in the derivation ...
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