초록
오늘날 위성원격탐사의 제분야는 새로운 첨단과학기술로서 지구과학분야에서 중요한 자리메김을 하고 있다. 1998년은 UN이 제정한 세계해양의 해이다. 따라서 이를 기념하여 위성해양학에 관련되는 사항들을 재정리해보고 나아가 해양수산의 과학기술분야 관련 전문종사자들에게 새롭게 알리는 것도 매우 의미 있는 일이라 하겠다. 아울러 본 총설은 끝부분에 기재한 위성원격탐사와 관련된 여러 서적들을 참고로 하여 편술하였음을 밝혀둔다.
Today, satellite remote sensing plays an important role as a advanced science and technology, and becomes a superpower tool of the study and research in various fields of Earth Science. UN proclaimed that 1998 was the year of the oceans, and WMO chose the title of 'Weather, Ocean and Human activity' as the principal subject of the day of the world meteorology in march 23, 1998, respectively. As previously announced, these two memories give the great meaning for satellite remote sensing in oceanography. Therefore, this study reviews satellite oceanography for many specialists in the fields of the ocean and fishery science. In future, satellite oceanography will be greatly used to observe, monitor and predict various phenomena associated with the oceans, in order to seek safety in a natural disaster, and menage and conserve the oceanic environments and resource.
