Advanced Technologies in Marine Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

Global change is known to affect the World's oceans, enclosed, and semi-enclosed seas to a large extent, and as such, their monitoring is of key importance for a better understanding of the very processes that result from the changing climate, that may trigger it, or that act as indicators for it, on regional and global scales. Various national and international research efforts have been undertaken, with the main focus put on advanced technologies that are deployed to study, and to monitor, the marine environment at scales ranging from centimeters to several thousand kilometers. These advanced technologies may include new sensors and algorithms, new parameters derived from the wealth of data obtained, but also new processing techniques, including Machine Learning, that allow an effective use of Big Data.

This Special Issue addresses new, advanced and challenging technologies that allow for an improved monitoring of the marine environment, thereby focussing on state-of-the-art techniques that will help in furthering our knowledge about the oceans, their various interactions with the land and atmosphere, and their role in a changing world. Original research articles and reviews are welcome, whose research topics may include, may are not limited to:

• Marine field campaigns;
• Laboratory experiments;
• Oceanic surface processes;
• Big Data analyses;
• Air-sea interactions;
• New sensors;
• Ocean currents and waves;
• Target detection.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Martin Gade
Guest Editor

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• ocean monitoring
• marine environment
• ocean currents
• air-sea interactions
• ocean waves
• big data
• machine learning