Coastal Baseline Survey of England and Wales Collected by the UK
Environment AgencyEntry ID: UK_EA_NCEMS_001 Abstract: The
Environment Agency is responsible for monitoring the entire
coastal zone as defined by the three nautical mile limit. An R &
D project (Airborne Remote Sensing of Coastal Waters, published
in R & D Report No.4) established the effectiveness of the
combination of aerial remote sensing, continuous underway
monitoring and sampling at selected fixed points. The image data
shows changes in water ... mass off the survey track and across
the three nautical mile zone. To be apparent in remotely sensed
imagery, changes in water quality of the coastal zone must in
some way alter the electromagnetic signal reflected or radiated
by the water. The two systems used by the Environment Agency
operate in two different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum,
the visible and Remotely sensed image data is collected from two
sensors, the Compact Airborne Spectrographic Image (CASI) and
the thermal video scanni