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OverviewPrincess Enheduanna, daughter of king Sargon of Akkad, lived around 2300 BC. She was a high priestess of the moon god Nanna in the ancient city of Ur. And an accomplished poet too. In fact, she is the author of a number of Sumerian hymns, and is generally considered to be the earliest author known by name. When she came to honor Inanna – the goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare, daughter of Nanna and often associated with the planet Venus (the one that the Akkadians called Ishtar) – above all the other gods of the Sumerian pantheon, she mentioned for the very first time, in her Hymn number 8, nothing less than the “Seven Seas”. . . Septem Maria, would call them the Romans centuries later, after inher- ing the concept from the Greeks (for whom seven probably just meant several), but perhaps applying it to the wrong place – i. e. the extensive system of coastal lagoons, which at the time dotted the northern Adriatic Sea – at least in the description of Pliny the Elder, Roman fleet commander and scholarly author of Historia Naturalis. Indeed, which seven seas are int- ded depends on the context. According to the historians, there are at least nine bodies of water in the medieval European and Arabic literature that can - pire to qualify as one of the famous seven. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Vittorio Barale , Martin GadePublisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.969kg ISBN: 9781402067716ISBN 10: 1402067712 Pages: 514 Publication Date: 31 March 2008 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contentsto Remote Sensing of the European Seas.- The European Marginal and Enclosed Seas: An Overview.- Remote Sensing of the European Seas: A Historical Outlook.- Visible & Thermal Infrared Passive/Active Remote Sensing.- Ocean Colour Remote Sensing of the Optically Complex European Seas.- Case Studies of Optical Remote Sensing in the Barents Sea, Black Sea and Caspian Sea.- Variations in the Phytoplankton of the North-Eastern Atlantic Ocean: From the Irish Sea to the Bay of Biscay.- Optical Remote Sensing of the North Sea.- Optical Remote Sensing Applications in the Baltic Sea.- Open Waters Optical Remote Sensing of the Mediterranean Sea.- Optical Remote Sensing of Intertidal Flats.- Visible and Infrared Remote Sensing of the White Sea Bio-Geo-Chemistry and Hydrology.- Remote Sensing of Coastal Upwelling in the North-Eastern Atlantic Ocean.- On the Use of Thermal Images for Circulation Studies: Applications to the Eastern Mediterranean Basin.- Current Tracking in the Mediterranean Sea Using Thermal Satellite Imagery.- The Next Generation of Multi-Sensor Merged Sea Surface Temperature Data Sets for Europe.- Laser Remote Sensing of the European Marine Environment: LIF Technology and Applications.- Microwave Passive/Active Remote Sensing.- Microwave Radiometry and Radiometers for Ocean Applications.- Microwave Aperture Synthesis Radiometry: Paving the Path for Sea Surface Salinity Measurement from Space.- Sea Ice Parameters from Microwave Radiometry.- to Microwave Active Techniques and Backscatter Properties.- Scatterometer Applications in the European Seas.- Radar Altimetry: Introduction and Application to Air-Sea Interaction.- 15 Years of Altimetry at Various Scales over the Mediterranean.- Can we Reconstruct the 20th Century Sea Level Variability in the Mediterranean Sea on the Basis of Recent Altimetric Measurements?.- Internal Waves Generated in the Straits of Gibraltar and Messina: Observations from Space.- High Resolution Wind Field Retrieval from Synthetic Aperture Radar: North Sea Examples.- Satellite Imaging for Maritime Surveillance of the European Seas.- Oil Spill Detection in Northern European Waters: Approaches and Algorithms.- The Use of Satellite Imagery from Archives to Monitor Oil Spills in the Mediterranean Sea.- Sea Ice Monitoring in the Arctic and Baltic Sea Using SAR.- SAR Observation of Rip Currents off the Portuguese Coast.- Current Measurements in European Coastal Waters and Rivers by Along-Track InSAR.- Wave and Current Observations in European Waters by Ground-Based X-Band Radar.- Nautical Radar Measurements in Europe: Applications of WaMos II as a Sensor for Sea State, Current and Bathymetry.- Land-Based Over-the-Horizon Radar Techniques for Monitoring the North-East Atlantic Coastal Zone.- Multi-Sensor Techniques.- Multi-Sensor Observations of Meso-Scale Features in European Coastal Waters.- Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing of Coastal Discharge Plumes: A Mediterranean Test Site.- Sea Ice Monitoring in the European Arctic Seas Using a Multi-Sensor Approach.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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