PROBABILITY OF MONITORING AND ANALYZING SEA SHORE ENVIRONMENT IN YAP USING SATELLITE DATA

Remote sensing technique is the effective technology for monitoring and analyzing environmental changes on the Earth surface. We focused to clarify the environmental changes in the Yap islands and Ulithi atoll using satellite data, especially the distribution of water depth around the Yap islands and in the Ulithi atoll. One of these results was compared with the environment of near shore of Japan. To serve our purpose, the sea-truth data were collected using portable spectrometer.