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Contents
8 Oil Pollution in Coastal Waters of Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Andrey G. Kostianoy, Olga Yu. Lavrova and Dmytro M. Solovyov
9 The Upwelling Area Off Namibia, the Northern Part
of the Benguela Current System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Herbert Siegel, Thomas Ohde and Monika Gerth
10 Ocean Colour Remote Sensing of Harmful Algal Blooms
in the Benguela System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Stewart Bernard, Grant Pitcher, Hayley Evers-King, Lisl Robertson,
Mark Matthews, Andy Rabagliati and Christelle Balt
11 Satellite Observations of Oceanic Eddies Around Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Werner Alpers, Dominique Dagorne and Peter Brandt
Part III Eastern Africa Near-Coastal Waters
12 Observing the Agulhas Current With Sea Surface Temperature
and Altimetry Data: Challenges and Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Marjolaine Krug, Paolo Cipollini and Francois Dufois
13 Use of SAR data to Monitor the Greater Agulhas Current . . . . . . . . . . 251
Johnny A. Johannessen, Bertrand Chapron, Fabrice Collard
and Björn Backeberg
14 Internal Solitary Waves System in the Mozambique Channel . . . . . . . . 263
Jorge M. Magalhaes, José C. B. da Silva and Adrian L. New
15 Ship Surveillance with High Resolution TerraSAR-X Satellite
in African Waters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Susanne Lehner, Andrey Pleskachevsky, Stephan Brusch, Miguel Bruck,
Matteo Soccorsi and Domenico Velotto
Part IV Marginal and Enclosed Water Bodies
16 Remote Sensing of Coral Reefs and Their Environments in the Red
Sea and Western Indian Ocean: Research and Management . . . . . . . . 317
Serge Andréfou¨ et
17 Basic Ecosystem Dynamics in the Red Sea as Seen by Sundry
Remote Sensing Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Vittorio Barale and Martin Gade
18 Eddies in the Red Sea as seen by Satellite SAR Imagery . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Svetlana S. Karimova and Martin Gade
Contents
8 Oil Pollution in Coastal Waters of Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Andrey G. Kostianoy, Olga Yu. Lavrova and Dmytro M. Solovyov
9 The Upwelling Area Off Namibia, the Northern Part
of the Benguela Current System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Herbert Siegel, Thomas Ohde and Monika Gerth
10 Ocean Colour Remote Sensing of Harmful Algal Blooms
in the Benguela System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Stewart Bernard, Grant Pitcher, Hayley Evers-King, Lisl Robertson,
Mark Matthews, Andy Rabagliati and Christelle Balt
11 Satellite Observations of Oceanic Eddies Around Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Werner Alpers, Dominique Dagorne and Peter Brandt
Part III Eastern Africa Near-Coastal Waters
12 Observing the Agulhas Current With Sea Surface Temperature
and Altimetry Data: Challenges and Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Marjolaine Krug, Paolo Cipollini and Francois Dufois
13 Use of SAR data to Monitor the Greater Agulhas Current . . . . . . . . . . 251
Johnny A. Johannessen, Bertrand Chapron, Fabrice Collard
and Björn Backeberg
14 Internal Solitary Waves System in the Mozambique Channel . . . . . . . . 263
Jorge M. Magalhaes, José C. B. da Silva and Adrian L. New
15 Ship Surveillance with High Resolution TerraSAR-X Satellite
in African Waters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Susanne Lehner, Andrey Pleskachevsky, Stephan Brusch, Miguel Bruck,
Matteo Soccorsi and Domenico Velotto
Part IV Marginal and Enclosed Water Bodies
16 Remote Sensing of Coral Reefs and Their Environments in the Red
Sea and Western Indian Ocean: Research and Management . . . . . . . . 317
Serge Andréfou¨ et
17 Basic Ecosystem Dynamics in the Red Sea as Seen by Sundry
Remote Sensing Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Vittorio Barale and Martin Gade
18 Eddies in the Red Sea as seen by Satellite SAR Imagery . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Svetlana S. Karimova and Martin Gade