Vol. 3 No. 1 (2014)

. The availability of light in the water column determines the euphotic zone and constrains the type and the vertical distribution of benthic species. Diffuse attenuation coefficient (Kd) is an important apparent optical property (AOP) that provide information about the attenuation of the spectral down welling solar irradiance with depth in the water. Ocean color Satellite provide global coverage of optical water quality parameters at spatial and temporal resolution. Several empirical and semi-analytical models are commonly used to derive Kd at wavelength 490 nm Kd(490) from ocean colour…

. Muara Gembong is a district that located in north coast of West Java and affected by the phenomena of coastal erosion. This phenomenon causes decreased land in Muara Gembong. To find out how vulnerable the villages in these districts by coastal erosion, it is necessary to map coastal vulnerability index. Value of coastal vulnerability index was obtained by classifying of coastal vulnerability index variable based on the value of the class and then it multiplied by the value of the weight of each variable. These variables defined into two, physical variables and non-physical variables…

. The ability of radar signals to penetrate cloud is one advantage to be used in tropical regionto monitor objects on the surface from the space. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is onetechnique in radar remote sensing that can be utilized for marine applications such as surfacewaves monitoring, ocean current circulation detection, oil slick monitoring and shipdetection. In order to assess the ability of SAR technique for ship detection, we analyze SARdata acquired by full polarimetric and interferometric airborne SAR in L-band type-2 (Pi-SARL2) from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).…

. Indonesia as an archipelagic country has marine area larger than land area, 13.446 islands (Geospatial Information Agency, 2012) with coastline 95,181 km (Indonesian Maritime Council, 2008), making Indonesia has natural resources of the sea more than the natural resources on land. This potential conditions of marine resources is seen as an opportunity for Indonesia as a developing country to build excellence in coastal and marine field. But during 68 years of the nation

. Agenda 21/1992 chapter 17 and Indonesia Republic Act No. 27/2007 provides a view on the management of coastal zone with the concept of sustainable development. The manifestation of the concept has been transformed into various forms of coastal research management strategies in accordance with the categories and characteristics of state elements (governance, territory and population). A dynamic development of Indonesia as a developing country, makes the issue due to land scarcity and human population arise. By using geographic-demographic approach, the correlation between every element…