Basic Investigations for Remote Sensing of Coastal Areas.

Abstract : This report is divided into three sections. The first section deals with progress to date in using processing techniques to extract coastal bottom information from passive multispectral scanner (MSS) data. A summary is presented on development of a reflectance model used to obtain information on coastal bottom compositions. The second section deals with the progress in the beach environment task. Preliminary result are reported on development of an algorithm to determine the percentage water by volume. Determination of mineral composition is also discussed. The final section deals with a radar study on the problem of rocky beach recognition. Various existing theories for equating radar backscatter to terrain roughness are explored.