This summer school was a sequel to the summer school on Remote Sensing
in Meteorology, Oceanography and Hydrology which was held in Dundee in
1980 and the proceedings of which were published by Ellis Horwood Ltd.,
Chichester, England. At the present summer scnool we concentrated on
only part of the subject area that was covered in 1980. Although there
was some repetit- ion of material that was presented in 1980, because by
and large we had a new set of participants, most subjects were treated
in considerably greater detail than had been possible previously. The
major topics covered in the present summer school were (i) the general
principles of remote sensing with particular reference to marine
applications, (ii) applications to physical oceanography, (iii) marine
resources applications and (iv) coastal monitoring and protection. The
material contained in this volume represents the written texts of most
of the lectures presented at the summer school. One important set of
lecture notes was not available; this was for the lectures on active
microwave techniques, principally synthetic aperture radar, by W. Alpers
from Hamburg. For this material we would refer the reader to "Imaging
Ocean Surface Waves by Synthetic Aperture Radar - A Review" by W.
Alpers, which is to appear as chapter 6 in "Satellite Microwave Remote
Sensing" edited by T.D. Allan (Ellis Horwood, Chichester) which is to be
published in 1983.