TABLE 3 
Time Scale as significant Problems for Remote Sensing | ISP 1978 Freiburg 
  
  
The geographical setting in coastal environment: 
classification of vertical landscape types, discriminated due to tidal process 
I above high water (mw) +) -supratidal- terrestrical-supralittoral-soil+veget. 
II between (HW and (zw)*) -intertidal- amphibious -littoral iY aan f 
III below low water (LW)'/-subtidal- submarine -sublittoral- estuarine 4 
ocean bottom 
    
    
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
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tidal data in general: for interpretation, mapping, remote sensing dis- 
crimination, the different. scale of hydrographic 
tidal data is required 
  
lime scale problems involved, dependent of environmental processes: 
  
l wave effects - non lin:ar boundary land-sea on beach - micro scale 
(1ongfcurrent(statistic, not real time) [sec - min) 
rip - current) 
D tidal effects- time dependent variability of water cove- micro-meso- 
ring exposure macro scale 
(sec-hour,day-month) 
D vegetation-climatic P.ytime dependent spectral quality- macro-scale 
(phenologie) (multitemporal) (month) 
  
  
  
Time scale parameters: of 1,2,5 versus Remote Sensing System 
  
scale time intervall character versus Remote Sensing 
l microscale . sec - min . periodic scanning process 
2 mesoscale . hour - day . periodic(out of 24! Lime scole  position-path 
tidal-per-vers.diurnal(orbit) 
: - ths . i i 1; 
3 macroscale . week - months . periodic repetition 
(multitemporal)