UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN MARINE SCIENCE
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

SYLLABUS

Semester VI - Application Oriented Subject - Remote Sensing and Applications to Marine Sciences

Duration of Examination: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4

Unit I

Coastal Processes - Oceanic circulation, Upwelling and sinking, Current measeurment, waves, surface waves, water motion in waves, reflection, diffraction and refraction, wave generated currents

Unit II

Tides, tidal forces, sediment drift, Remote Sensing application for coastal erosion and accretion, salinity intrusion, navigation, estuarine studies and Coastal Zone Management.

Unit III

Morphological divisions of sea and biological environment - biological productivity of ocean environment - food chain of the sea.

Unit IV

Ocean Resource Estimation - Ocean living and non-living resources - evaluation, ocean resources, primaiy productivity studies - estimation of biomass, etc.

Unit V

Remote Sensing Applications: coastal and ocean resource management - wetland mapping - Mangroves - coral reefs and other pollution assessment.

Books Recommended

Remote Sensing of Atmospheres and Oceans by Deepak, A., Academic Press, San Francisco, 1986

Remote Sensing methods and application by Michael Hord, R., John Wiley and Sons. New York, 1986.

Satellite Oceanography by Robinson, 1986.