Research on application of remote sensing into marine exploitation and management

Satellite remote sensing has been an important method of marine monitoring. In this paper, according to the requirements of marine monitoring and marine management, the authors produced figures to show the coastline changes, distributions of suspended sediment and chlorophyll-a based on the data from Landsat-5 and synchronous monitoring data of Yellow River's mouth and Laizhou Bay in different periods. Analyses were made on the characteristics of changes of coastline, distributions of suspended sediment and chlorophyll-a. Through this practice, satellite remote sensing was experimentally applied in operational work of marine monitoring. The value of applying remote sensing to marine management and environmental monitoring were discussed and proved as well in this paper.